In a successful picture book, you always want the voice of the text to match the voice of the art; so that it seems as if the same person writing is the one illustrating and vice versa.

When we run from God, we run away from everything that makes us alive and free. We run away from our own happiness. We leave our place where we belong—close to his heart.

There are lots of stories in the Bible, but all the stories are telling one Big Story. The Story of how God loves his children and comes to rescue them.

When we're about telling the best possible story, making the best possible book - we're thinking about the reader, rather than about our egos. And then we serve the story. Not the other way 'round.

A picture book is a story told in two languages - word and image. And the illustration is the front door of the book.

Even death is going to die!

So maybe that’s what love means. Having the capacity to forgive the one who wronged you, no matter how deep the hurt was.

No solution can ever be found by running in three different directions.

I have learned that I am also a person who has to be able to go fishing whenever I can and for as long as I want to go. It is a silly thing, but there it is.

Football players, like prostitutes, are in the business of ruining their bodies for the pleasure of strangers.

He thought and suffered a good deal but he lacked the resolution to dare--the first requisite of a practitioner.

Don't think for a moment that I'm really like any of the characters I've played. I'm not. That's why it's called 'acting'.

A good soldier, like a good horse, cannot be of a bad color.

Personal style is about taking a risk, trying something unexpected, and having fun with fashion, but always being true to yourself.

You may not want to hear it, but your critics are often the ones telling you they still love you and care about you, and want to make you better.

Every man should own a navy cashmere jacket with gold buttons, a grey suit, black shoes shoes for the city, brown shoes for elsewhere. Everything else should be simple and really well made.