I had to keep the text pretty spare compared to what I would typically do in a picture book. My picture books have a lot of little jokes and asides that aren't necessarily part of the main story.

Memory revises me.

I know where I’ve come from. I know why I’m here. I know where I’m going—and I have peace in my heart. His peace floods my heart and overwhelms my soul!

Learn how to learn...then start learning

Libraries were full of ideas—perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.

... pure and intelligent women can be deceived and misled by the baser sort, their very innocence and experience making them credulous and the helpless tools of the guilty and bold.

Love teaches us how to penetrate the inner worlds, to clean the glass of existence and see reality in its perfect essence.

Where the heart is really attached, I know very well how little one can be pleased with the attention of any body else.

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.[to feel unhappy you need the time to consider how your lot could be better]

I'm not a morose person; it's just that my best songs reflect on the sadder aspects of life.

... mathematics is absolutely necessary and useful to the other sciences.