Any action can be practiced as an art, as a craft, or as drudgery.

Every moment of life is unique-a kiss, a sunset, a dance, a joke. None will ever recur in quite the same way. Each happens only once in the history of the universe.

The most potent muse of all is our own inner child.

Improvisation is intuition in action, a way to discover the muse and learn to respond to her call.

The easiest way to do art is to dispense with success and failure altogether and just get on with it.

Structure ignites spontaneity. Limits yield intensity. When we play... by our self-chosen rules, we find that containment of strength amplifies strength.

The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge.

Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of ones chosen form.

To do anything artistically you have to acquire technique, but create through your technique and not with it.

Surrender means cultivating a comfortable attitude toward not knowing, being nurtured by the mystery of moments that are dependably surprising, ever fresh.

Every conversation is a form of Jazz. The activity of instantaneous creation is as ordinary to us as breathing.

Know the history of the great ancestors.

The past exists not as a factual recounting of what happened, but as an experience that we are constantly recreating in our mind which means we CAN change the past!

I don't believe professional athletes should be role models. I believe parents should be role models.

Somebody did an article in one of the newspapers saying that at that time I had the most visibility of any actor around. Kind of nice, you know, when that thing was happening.

It is the chief value of legend to mix up the centuries while preserving the sentiment.

Stop thinking... Start doing. Think less... Do more. Do the thing... And you will know the way.

Church and State, Soul and Body, God and Man, are all one at Mont Saint Michel, and the business of all is to fight, each in his own way, or to stand guard for each other.

Standing still is the fastest way of moving backwards in a rapidly changing world.

And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.

And if my present deeds are foolish in thy sight, it may be that a foolish judge arraigns my folly.