Drawing must seek for interest, not for admiration. Because admiration wears quickly.

Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.

Daydreaming with pencil and paper is a respectable form of meditation.

Occasionally projects just take off unexpectedly, sometimes you can work away at sketches and ideas for years before they are published. There are a number of authors I would be eager to illustrate.

What can make your work interesting is as much who you are, as how you draw.

I have been illustrating Tolkien's books ever since I first read them, long before illustration became my profession.

God loves you enough , trusts you enough, to let affliction come into your life to see whether you will exercise the muscles of faith while your physical muscles begin to atrophy.

I initially moved to Switzerland for work on an animated feature film, and have been here ever since.

Dragons and bridges are very much something out of fairy tales and fantasy.

What a folly to dread the thought of throwing away life at once and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

Teaching is not only a profession, but it a is a purpose of a great life.

Respectable Protestant denominations retreated inside...leaving...unaffiliated madwomen to evangelize alfresco...

It is God's hand which has guided everything, and it is God whom we must thank above all.

Such widely different things as war and picnics will surely show a man up.

You know, either I'm too fat or I'm flavour of the month. I don't feel either, but maybe I'm both, who knows?

As I stepped to the stage to pick up my degree, and the locusts sang off in the distance.

It is in lonely solitude that God delivers His best thoughts, and the mind needs to be still and quiet to receive them.

But if you parry individuals points - a negative and defensive enterprise - you never step back and actively imagine a world in which a different system of ideas could be true - a positive act.

Got up this morning and could not find my glasses. Finally had to seek assistance. Kate [Winslet] found them inside a flower arrangement.

Life is short and love is over in the morning.