Creative expression requires an ability to work with feelings and channel them. Frustration, dissatisfaction, and even a sense of desperation may help you access an eloquence you never knew existed.

Art is an articulator of the soul's uncensored purpose and deepest will.

It, (creativity) requires an inclination to step into the unknown, as well as the ability to persist when there is no end in sight.

Creativity is a force moving through us, and only through practice do we learn how to cooperate with it. The 'process' is like a muscle. It needs to be exercised in order to function effortlessly.

Imaginative compassion for that which is other than myself is a constant artistic and ethical discipline.

Creation is a sentient and instinctual flow that determines where to go and what to change or omit.

Creative freedom is determined by how we behold the world. Any one of us can make new things with our perceptions that serve as doorways to the creative imagination. No one is excluded.

We can only learn about creativity through our own experience of it.

A person's license to create is irrevocable, and it opens to every corner of daily life. But it is always hard to see that doubt, fear, and indirectness are eternal aspects of the creative path.

When I started to focus on all the beauty all around me, my whole world became amazingly beautiful.

Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment or it will run to weeds.

The public school has become the established church of secular society.

The way I personally work is I like to write what I know, what I feel, and also where I am.

Over a period of years he collected thousands of discples. Many became his students. Many didn't become his students but whenever he was in town they would go and see him.

Libraries are where most of us really fall in love with books, where we can browse and choose on our own. Its really one of the first autonomous things we do, picking the books we want to read.

You can find that sort of regularity in Stock Exchange quotations. [Expressing his lack of confidence in reported regularities in the periodic classification of elements.]

The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.

Brussels sprouts are misunderstood - probably because most people don't know how to cook them properly.