Dream, but expect nothing. Desire, but expect nothing. Hope, but expect nothing. Release your need to control and gain real control.

Life is too short not to create, not to love, and not to lend a helping hand to our brothers and sisters.

There are an infinite number of rewards you could bestow on yourself for working at your creative projects, and you deserve every one of them.

We have enough experiences in a day to make art for a decade.

When you flow like water you bring all of your talents and resources to your creative work... Flow around every obstacle you encounter, including any you've erected yourself.

If, because of anxiety and self-doubt, you procrastinate and only think about working, you'll feel more exhausted than if you'd created for hours.

You can't plan in advance for everything - every mood swing, every mistake you might make in execution, every shift in your circumstances. But you can keep updating your plan.

The artist's personality, built upon strong desires and compassionate vision, is by its nature prone to depression.

Talent is so loaded a word, so full to the brim with meanings, that an artist might be wise to forget about it altogether and just keep on working.

One visit with a child can supply us with enough creativity dust to last for a lifetime... Visit with children like you're the child you ought to be more often.

The artist, busy and unsettled, can find a moment's peace - and even whole-being rejuvenation - by quietly attuning to a red sky, a gray sky, a black sky, a blue sky.

I wasn't quite as certain that I knew her soul. When it came right down to it, I wasn't sure she knew me either.

I've got the hungries for your love and I'm waiting in your welfare line.

The truth is, it's not a great career move to create a readership and then, in effect, abandon them.

Unilateralism is not internationalism, It is nationalist egotism gone mad.

Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after her image, but far more beautiful and prosperous.

The good thing about 'Weeds' now is, I get to play some dramatic parts in that as well.

As far as I'm concerned, the happiest time of my life is now. There's a future and I can't wait to get to it.

The moment of Jesus' greatest glory was on the cross, dying as our substitute.

Christianity has not failed. It is simply that nations have failed to try it. There would be no war in a God-directed world.

I'm not an easygoing guy as a director.