Top 50 Quotes

"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"

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

"Success is a journey, not a destination"

"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"

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

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

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

"We pay when old for the excesses of youth"

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

"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"

"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"

"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"

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

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

"My pride fell with my fortunes"

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

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

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

"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"

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

"All diseases run into one, old age"

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

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

"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"

"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"

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

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

"Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age"

"Hate is more lasting than dislike"

"A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money"

"Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting"

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

"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"

"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"

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

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

"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"

"A light heart lives long"

"Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength"

"Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need"

"An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her"

"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"

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

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

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

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

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

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