Top 50 Quotes

"Success is a journey, not a destination"

"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"

"What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy"

"A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit"

"If at first you don't succeed, try, try again"

"Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present, and what to plan for in the future"

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

"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"

"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage"

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

"We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own"

"We pay when old for the excesses of youth"

"Some artists claim praise is irrelevant in measuring the success of art, but I think it's quite relevant. Besides, it makes me feel great"

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

"Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit"

"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"

"The Dick, Jane, and Spot primers have gone to that bookshelf in the sky. I have, in some ways, a tender feeling toward them, so I think it's for the best"

"A nomad I will remain for life, in love with distant and uncharted places"

"I am not afraid of death, but would not want to die in some obscure or pointless way"

"One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again"

"Do not just look at your boyfriend as just a boyfriend. Look at him as a friend, too"

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

"Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop"

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

"My pride fell with my fortunes"

"The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many people come to the fountain of life with a sieve instead of a tank car... a teaspoon instead of a steam shovel. They expect little and as a result they get little"

"Wonder if there is life on another planet? Let's suppose there is. Suppose further, that only one star in a trillion has a planet that could support life. If that were the case, then there would be at least 100 million planets that harbored life"

"All diseases run into one, old age"

"Nothing lasts forever - not even your troubles"

"Every human life is a fairy tale written by the finger of God"

"The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older"

"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"

"Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair"

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

"As much as I'd like to meet the tooth fairy on an evening walk, I don't really believe it can happen"

"As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind"

"The beloved of the Almighty are: the rich who have the humility of the poor, and the poor who have the magnanimity of the rich"

"Chicago has a strange metaphysical elegance of death about it"

"I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure"

"See into life, don't just look at it"

"The trouble with the future is that is usually arrives before we're ready for it"

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

"Take away love and our earth is a tomb"

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

"Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you"

"One must never look for happiness: one meets it by the way"

"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool"

"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"

"Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling"

"Hate is more lasting than dislike"