Rien n'est plus puissant qu'une idée dont l'heure est venue.

In the realm of perception, the whole is not only more than but also very different from the sum of its parts.

A picture book is like a theater where the audience can walk around on stage.

The ability to be alone is the ability to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it’s not. It is an existential truth: only those who can be alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of another human being—without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other.

Spend as much time crafting the subject line of an email as the message itself because the subject line is often the only thing people read.