Your house is all about routine, not the unexpected events of your life.

The Polar Express began with the idea of a train standing alone in the woods. I asked myself, What if a boy gets on that train? Where does he go?

I write for what's left of the eight-year-old still rattling around inside my head

its not bad to be different. Sometimes it's the mark of being very very talented.

The idea of the extraordinary happening in the context of the ordinary is what's fascinating to me

Following my muse has worked out pretty well so far. I can't see any reason to change the formula now.

I don't think ordinary things are very interesting, so I try to imagine a world that is less ordinary.

The opportunity to create a small world between two pieces of cardboard, where time exists yet stands still, where people talk and I tell them what to say, is exciting and rewarding.

I pore over every word on the cereal box at breakfast, often more than once. You can ask me anything about shredded wheat.

Santa is our culture's only mythic figure truly believed in by a large percentage of the population. It's a fact that most of the true believers are under eight years old, and that's a pity.

Certain peer pressures encourage little fingers to learn how to hold a football instead of a crayon. I confess to having yielded to these pressures.

Every act of goodness is born from our desire to be happy.

All earth-born hopes with time must pass away; prayer grasps eternal things; pray, always pray.

God gives the world enough of what it needs. All He asks is that we distribute what He gives.

And who understands? Not me, because if I did I would forgive it all.

All the men in my life have been two things: an epic and an epidemic.

It [England] is a family in which the young are generally thwarted and most of the power is in the hands of irresponsible uncles and bedridden aunts.

From the first, I made my learning, what little it was, useful every way I could.

Mother India has 250 crore arms, majority of which are of the youth, who have the capacity to fulfil India's dreams!

Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. Take advantage of every opportunity of service.

You must welcome tests because it gives you confidence and it ensures promotion.