“A book a day keeps the mind happy and gay!”

“Our soul is an instrument of music if we choose to play it with love!”

“As I walk , I light the lamp of my soul. As I walk, I light the wick of anothers soul.”

“I feel an author and an illustrator weave the magic of a children's picture book together.”

“The biggest and loveliest miracle of today is you yourself!”

“I am the dust and dirt from which this earth grows.”

“Of course it would be hard. But I remembered what my nurseryman grandfather used to say when I didnt want to go to school: half the work in the world was done by people who didnt feel so good today.”

“I've never minded it," he went on. "Being lost, that is. I had always thought one could not truly be lost if one knew one's own heart. But I fear I may be lost without knowing yours.”

“There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison”