Creativity is harnessing universality and making it flow through your eyes.

The best leaders operate in four dimensions: vision, reality, ethics, and courage.

You are 100 percent responsible for how your children turn out. And you accomplish that by teaching them that they are 100 percent responsible for how they turn out.

Reflection doesn't take anything away from decisiveness, from being a person of action. In fact, it generates the inner toughness that you need to be an effective person of action - to be a leader.

The greatest happiness in life is to be truly and consistently creative.

To be a leader is to be awake and alert, to be dissatisfied at all times

People who achieve access to the deepest roots of their freedom can completely change.

To recognize another's inwardness is to have seen the sacred.

For what is magic, but passion freed from reason?

People are jostling at the gates of heaven or Department stores Words are bumping into each other("Poem")

Stick to a task, 'til it sticks to you. Beginners are many, finishers are few." -Anonymous, as quoted in Small and Simple Things.

I think this whole discussion about what is politically correct - sometimes you have to name the name. You can't hide it. Politeness is good if it's not hiding the truth.

Life must be something more than dilettante speculation.

Old gold has a civilizing virtue which new gold must grow old to be capable of secreting.

I love 'Saturday Night Live,' and it's such a funny show. I don't know if I'm funny enough to be on it but definitely would be interested in doing it.

Well, I was lucky enough to be involved in about 19 failures at an early age, so I'm realistic about the success I'm having and how quickly it can go away. What's important is to be smart about it.

I have a brother who is afraid to go to sleep, he dreams he's working.

The purpose of a writer is to be read, and the criticism which would destroy the power of pleasing must be blown aside