Occasionally projects just take off unexpectedly, sometimes you can work away at sketches and ideas for years before they are published. There are a number of authors I would be eager to illustrate.

Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.

Daydreaming with pencil and paper is a respectable form of meditation.

What can make your work interesting is as much who you are, as how you draw.

Drawing must seek for interest, not for admiration. Because admiration wears quickly.

I have been illustrating Tolkien's books ever since I first read them, long before illustration became my profession.

God loves you enough , trusts you enough, to let affliction come into your life to see whether you will exercise the muscles of faith while your physical muscles begin to atrophy.

I initially moved to Switzerland for work on an animated feature film, and have been here ever since.

Dragons and bridges are very much something out of fairy tales and fantasy.

What a folly to dread the thought of throwing away life at once and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

Grit, which they defined as the tendency to work strenuously toward challenges, maintaining effort and interest over years despite failure, adversity, and plateaus in progress.

May you find comfort by reading and mediation on God’s word.

Put all thine eggs in one basket and - watch that basket.

Bottom is bottom, even if it is turned upside down.

I won't give up the diary again. I must hold on here, it is the only place I can.

The ordinary activities I find most compatible with contemplation are walking, baking bread, and doing laundry.

Honesty, like my mama always says, is always the best policy.

Eventually everyone will have the opportunity to travel onto space.

...the devil we blame our atrocities on is really just each one of us. So don't expect the end of the world to come one day out of the blue - it's been happening every day for a long time.

Dreams, I thought. They're the riches of a poor person, stashed in treasure chests buried deeply in the imagination. But are dreams enough?