Even though we require flexibility to negotiate our changing circumstances, we are rather built to anxiously turn away from alternatives.

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

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

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.

Get thee to the novel! - the novel, that word-woven submarine, piloted by intimation and intuition, that will dive you to the deeps of the heart's maelstrom.

Great leaders are great servants because the only way of setting an example is by demonstrating an example. Service to mankind is the key to true leadership!

A man can do all things if he but wills them.

Ease off the martyr throttle.

I like colorful tales with black beginnings and stormy middles and cloudless blue-sky endings. But any story will do.

That she lived a lie. That she wasn't the good girl everyone believed her to be, wanted her to be.

The only real valuable thing is intuition.

I've had all kinds of experiences with God in terms of revelation through a still, small voice or dreams or coincidences.

Let the fear go, and live your life with the power of love.

The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.