Picture books are an emotional medium. They need to make us feel something.

Every word, every character in a picture book must count.

Don’t let mental blocks control you. Set yourself free. Confront your fear and turn the mental blocks into building blocks.

The journey is the destination.

Marriage is a mystery and part of it is just being kind to each other, not being selfish.

The truest wild beasts live in the most populous places.

I have never been in a bad mood and near a beach ball at the same time. Causation? Correlation? Or fate?

The idea of holding back certainly didn't come from Scripture.

There will be no peace among the nations without peace among the religions. There will be no peace among the religions without dialogue among the religions.

The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered.

I'd rather enjoy the money, and then be buried, offering my body back to the flora and fauna of which I have dined my whole life.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. The struggle for justice must never be adjourned. The forces of injustice do not take vacations.