Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite - getting something down.

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?

If someone proved to me that Christ is outside the truth and that in reality the truth were outside of Christ, then I should prefer to remain with Christ rather than with the truth.

Having a little girl has been like following an old treasure map with the important paths torn away.

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Caring about the welfare of children and shaming parents are mutually exclusive endeavors.

Outside, in the newly fallen darkness, the world had been transformed. The sky had become a glistening tapestry of stars.

When I paint I am ageless, I just have the pleasure or the difficulty of painting.

That was the way with grief: it left you alone for months together until you thought that you were cured, and then without warning it blotted out the sunlight.

Everything is scary if you look at it. So you just got to live.

When the divine vision is attained, all appear equal; and there remains no distinction of good and bad, or of high and low.

Do good, be good and see good. Do everything with love.