Every creative person can draft into service those around them who exhibit the right mixture of intelligence, insight, and grace.

If everyone is trying to prevent error, it screws things up.

If you give a good idea to a mediocre group, they'll screw it up. If you give a mediocre idea to a good group, they'll fix it. Or they'll throw it away and come up with something else.

You are not your idea, and if you identify too closely with your ideas, you will take offense when they are challenged.

If you aren't experiencing failure, then you are making a far worse mistake: You are being driven by the desire to avoid it.

Creativity doesn't follow titles. It just comes from where it comes from.

Art isn't about drawing; it's about learning to see. What organization doesn't need this ability?

Success hides problems...you don't need to address problems.

For me, creativity includes problem-solving. That's the broad definition of it.

I love solving the problems of having groups work together and removing barriers. But to actually turn around and be in the center of that is an awkward place to be.

You can give a great film idea to a mediocre team and they may screw it up, but if you give a mediocre idea to a great team, they will turn it into a great film.

I have never been afraid of dying, I have only been afraid of not living fully.

But if we are truly happy inside, then age brings with it a maturity, a depth, and a power that only magnifies our radiance.

A well-balanced person has a drink in each hand.

Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.

We must first pray, that God would make us wise; before we can wish, he would make us happy.

You! You are so lucky you're dead.

I don't like rooms you never use or that are wasted space but I also like a sparseness and a cleanness.

Anything that I want, I must also be ok with not having, otherwise it's idolatry.

I have no sentiments for nationality or for soil. But I grew up in Israel, so those things are in my blood, and I want to be part of Israeli culture.

Now close the windows and hush all the fields: If the trees must, let them silently toss.