Crisis moments create opportunity. Problems and crises ignite our greatest creativity and thought leadership as it forces us to focus on things outside the norm.

Don't compare your life to others. You have no idea what they have been through.

Too often we worry about how the others react-but it's YOUR reaction that they monitor.

The happiest people don't necessarily have the best of everything but they make the most of everything.

I understand once again that the greatness of God always reveals itself in the simple things.

Embrace your weirdness. Some will adore you. Others won't. But who cares? Worry about loving yourself, not loving the idea of other people loving you.

Being an artist is a job for life.

The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.

To me, I always listen to what my instincts tell me. The biggest mistakes I've ever made is when I've ignored what I know to be true in my heart.

To make sense to us as physical creatures, any 'truth' must undergo transformations, be couched in certain terms or we couldn't understand it.

True and false fears let us refrain, Let us love nobly, and live, and add again Years and years unto years, till we attain To write threescore ; this is the second of our reign.

We may say that life has borrowed from inanimate processes the same basic mechanism used in producing those striking structures that are crystals, with their beautiful plane faces.

When someone criticizes you, it defines who they are, not who you are.

I almost never these days sit down with a CD or my laptop and just listen to a piece with a score. I probably would do that while I'm exercising.