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.

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.

Even death is going to die!

Fill yourself with love and happiness, but never give up the desire to love more.

To become God's mighty servants, we must decide whether we will base our life on His priorities or the world's. The two are incompatible.

Europe is, perhaps, the least worn-out of the continents, because it is the most lived in. A place that is lived in lives.

I can hardly decide what plays I should be in.

Having a good home, eating good food, wearing good clothes, are a means to living well; they are not the goals of our life. The quality of your life is decided by how peaceful and joyful you are.

Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving.

I like a canvas to breathe and be alive. Be alive is the point. And, as the limitations are something called pigment and canvas, let's see if I can do it.

When you pass through the fire, you pass through humble.

It's always great to have two inspirations, one that has more of an editorial purpose and one for more of an everyday, wearable approach.

We cannot continue doing the same thing and expect different results