Quotes by American authors

"There was a great deal of peer recognition to be gained in elementary school by being able to draw well. One girl could draw horses so well, she was looked upon as a kind of sorceress"

"Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence"

"Art is the only way to run away without leaving home"

"I fear it's because religion is man's attempt to reach God, and when he feels he has succeeded, he cannot abide anyone else's claim to have done the same"

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

"If you aren't going all the way, why go at all?"

"The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised"

"If you wanna cry ..use tissue paper not your fb status"

"I don't see success as the goal. Obedience is the goal"

"People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people"

"I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza"

"There can be many different views of what Heaven is like, because Heaven is whatever makes each person eternally and fully happy"

"Men's best successes come after their disappointments"

"Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances"

"People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest"

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us"

"You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution"

"Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance?"

"Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day"

"Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child"

"One who understands much displays a greater simplicity of character than one who understands little"

"At first, I see pictures of a story in my mind. Then creating the story comes from asking questions of myself. I guess you might call it the 'what if - what then' approach to writing and illustration"

"We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities"

"All diseases run into one, old age"

"You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place"

"Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days"

"A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age"

"The best way out is always through"

"It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day"

"The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook"