Pain is a gift. Humanity, without pain, would know neither fear nor pity.
I make no claim to be an authority on writing or illustrating for children.
If I had my way. . . there wouldn't be a single lion or tiger in captivity anywhere in the world. They never take to it. They're never happy. They never settle down. . . You can see it in their eyes.
The fact that I have been successful merely means that I can write and illustrate in my own way.
There has always been a tendency to classify children almost as a distinct species.
He is inviting you - and me - to come home, to come home to where we belong, to come home to that for which we were created. His arms are stretched out wide to receive us. His heart is enlarged to take us in.
The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else.
The Law of Attraction is the Law of Love.
I think we are in the midst of this period where we are committing this suicide on the planet and everybody is just using up all of our natural resources like a bunch of insane people. That's what I worry about more than I worry about jazz.