Creative freedom is prosperity for the soul.

Creativity isn't about avoiding frustration. It's about pushing through and coming out the other side.

Leadership is more about purpose than it is about position.

Leaders step up, even when they feel like hiding. And they do so because they care.

If we don’t communicate, we certainly can’t get much done and if we don’t communicate authentically, what we get done is less effective.

A catalyst by definition creates a reaction, but itself remains unchanged. Be a positive catalyst for a cause you are passionate about. I dare you to remain unchanged!

I'm not reinventing myself. I'm finding myself. There's a difference!

Knowing how you want your work to look helps you decide who best to work with and where.

Just because others don't understand your journey doesn't mean you're not on the right one. After all, it is YOURS!

Yes, you are creative and in slow, languid times, creativity peers out of your soul like a field mouse from its burrow at night.

If there was ever a time to create, it is now!

I would rather be damned by my honesty, than caged by my lies.

Ive introduced eight bills to fight for support for our small businesses and ensure we get funding to rebuild public housing - among other things.

Playwriting is all about empathy, getting inside the head of someone who is not you, to think like they think without judging them.

Sad thing is, you can still love someone and be wrong for them.

Go through the things that life gives you to go through, happily. You have to loosen the grip of time, gradually.

I don't know how we continue to do politics in a democracy if we simply can't listen to one another, if we simply close the door and say you are beyond redemption.

Obviously you can't please everyone. I'm sure some people say, 'Bloody old Len Goodman gets on my nerves.

I have been very lucky. I have always been able to eat and drink and dance in my life so I am not afraid of anything. And if suddenly I should have nothing I would still be grateful.

No man can afford to express, through words or acts, that which is not in harmony with his own beliefs, and if he does so, he must pay by the loss of his ability to influence others.

Do poets have any insight into what's the right ratio? I doubt it, but I think that they can be awake to what the ends are.