Winnie the Pooh finds comfort in counting his pots of honey, and Rabbit finds comfort in knowing where his relations are – even if he doesn't need them at the moment.

- A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

Parents who daily read Robert Lewis Stevenson to their children and surrounds them with blocks, plastic animals, and some cardboard boxes or kitchen pots and pans are going to produce a qualitatively different child from those who spend that time on TV or videos, even if their choices ARE only Winnie the Pooh and Mr. Rogers.

- Diane Medved, Saving Childhood

Dutton, the home of Winnie the Pooh, would find a second identity as a home for gay fiction.

- Christopher Bram, Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

I live in a wonderful world of make-believe. A world of Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire. A world of Winnie the Pooh and Edward Bear. Things like that. Wonderful things. Funny things.

- Eileen Ford