Art requires imagination. It requires Creativity. Creativity requires experience and experience comes from your life. And your life is expressed in your art.

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one

Make at least one definite move daily toward your goal.

Remember, success is a journey not a destination. Have faith in your ability. You will do just fine.

Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water.

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.

The past is no more; the future not yet. Nothing exists except the here and now. Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at our hands.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence

The two of them became an instant couple. Very Romeo and Juliet without the wonky families and tragic double-suicide thing.

But, instead of what our imagination makes us suppose and which we worthless try to discover, life gives us something that we could hardly imagine.

True love doesn’t exist, for, love is always true. If it is not true, then it is not love at all.

I think that's what makes a successful marriage: a mindful sense of self and the ability to make clear choices to stay together or choices not to.

Pure energy is the father of creation.

Luck is tenacity of purpose.

Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.

I like to read in the dark. I like to go into the bathtub, turn out all the lights, and in the dark, read my books.

Respect the way characters may change once they've got 50 pages of life in them. Revisit your plan at this stage and see whether certain things have to be altered to take account of these changes.