Accept the fact that you're an artist and stop second-guessing yourself. Just do it.

Growth is an erratic forward movement: two steps forward, one step back. Remember that and be very gentle with yourself.

What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us.

The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people’s expectations.

I have learned, as a rule of thumb, never to ask whether you can do something. Say, instead, that you are doing it. Then fasten your seat belt. The most remarkable things follow.

Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough - that we should try again.

It takes constant vigilance not to slip into negativity or simple apathy. It takes courage to believe over any given period of time that we are getting better and not sliding into decline.

As you move toward a dream, the dream moves toward you.

Creativity requires faith. Faith requires that we relinquish control.

If we lean into what we love instead of soldiering toward what we 'should,' our pace quickens, our energy rises, optimism sets in. What we love is nutritious for us.

What we focus on, we empower and enlarge. Good multiplies when focused upon. Negativity multiplies when focused upon. The choice is ours: Which do we want more of?

For an instant I saw before me the young girl this used to be.

Like a speeding trainI am passing by...I don’t knowwhere I’m headingwith whom or whyall I know is thatI will never, everpass from here againall I know is I’m skidding forwardon this track of life.

If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.

As the problems are new, we must disenthrall ourselves from the past.

I've been married fifty-five years and I've been home three weeks.

We spend the early years feeding our brains with information and the latter half trying not to think about it all.

[Tom] Steyer is specifically spending money on candidates who will take action against climate change.

Love and appreciate your parents. We are often so busy growing up; we forget they are also growing old.

Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.

A computer can have so much more in its brain that a human can.