Fear is a desolate boneyard where our dreams go to desiccate in the hot sun.

As the saying goes, "Argue for your limitations and you get to keep them." Why would I want to keep my limitations?

Do you have the courage? Do you have the courage to bring forth this work? The treasures that are hidden inside you are hoping you will say yes." (quoting Jack Gilbert)

[C]reative living is a path for the brave.

If you don't learn to travel comfortably alongside your fear, then you'll never be able to go anywhere interesting or do anything interesting.

A good-enough novel violently written now is better than a perfect novel meticulously written never.

[There is a] quiet glory [in] merely making things, and then sharing those things with an open heart and no expectations.

And at the end of your days, you can thank creativity for having blessed you with a charmed, interesting, passionate existence.

Work with all your heart, because - I promise - if you show up for your work day after day after day after day. you just might get lucky enough some random morning to burst into bloom.

It might have been done before, but it hasn’t been done by you!

It has taken me years to learn this, but it does seem to be the case if that I am not actively creating something, then I am probably actively destroying something

People tell me it's a sinTo know and feel too much within

The cruelest thing is love that leads us to deal with the parts of ourselves that we do not want to see, and this is what, in fact, we do not forgive each other.

To copy a virtue in another is more copying than it is virtue. Try to learn what that virtue is based upon.

Empowered Women 101: If he has to destroy other people to raise your self esteem and level of trust then he is not a son of God and guess what your not a daughter of God for letting him do it.

The best possible preparation of success is empower yourself with trust in self capabilities.

The world's waistlines are expanding, but it's an epidemic of a larger issue in terms of our bounty having become our burden.

...that I alone hold the definition of what I am.

Most professional players are their own biggest critics. Some of the things you read in the papers that strike you as bang out of order will already have been thought by the players themselves

As a man, I've learned that there is nothing easier in married life than pleasing your wife with your cooking.

I can’t wait fifteen years to do my work: Because my ideas are coming now.