Be bold, free, and truthful.

Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable.

This is what I learned: that everybody is talented, original and has something important to say.

I will tell you what I have learned myself. For me, a long five or six mile walk helps. And one must go alone and every day.

Work freely and rollickingly as though you were talking to a friend who loves you. Mentally (at least three or four times a day) thumb your nose at all know-it-alls, jeerers, critics, doubters.

When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life.

We are always afraid to start something that we want to make very good, true, and serious.

I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in kindergarten, - happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another.

The tragedy of bold, forthright, industrious people is that they act so continuously without much thinking, that it becomes dry and empty.

Families are great murderers of the creative impulsive, particularly husbands.

No writing is a waste of time – no creative work where the feelings, the imagination, the intelligence must work. With every sentence you write, you have learned something. It has done you good.

Your will to success supersedes all other wills.

Why do people look to the government to fix the economy? It's mind-boggling.

To be given loyalty is to be infused like a gemstone, to be granted the frightful license to destroy not only one's self, but all within one's care.

Musicians should not play music. Music should play musicians.

I believe that robots should only have faces if they truly need them

Loneliness is the universal problem of rich people.

Where the terror is, you must go.

I am always struck by the fact that human awareness of our place in nature, like so much of modern science, began with the Industrial Revolution.

If you are playing repertoire material, you're stuck. There's not huge amounts you can do.

Organizations that destroy the status quo win. Whatever the status quo is, changing it gives you the opportunity to be remarkable.