Few artists are able to accurately assess just how valuable and great their work is - or how much it will be appreciated by its audience. In other words, insecurity is the name of the game.

You cannot become a master until you actually take the leap, do the work, make several thousand mistakes, and live to tell about it.

There really is no such thing as failure. There is only the rearrangement of plans and surrender of ego.

When a performer goes out on a stage, they may feel the audience is judging every aspect of them and their life. In fact, all that poor audience is doing is waiting to be entertained a little.

Experience is truly the only thing that makes experts so expert.

How many of us give up along the way because we'll never be the expert that so-and-so is?

There is probably no greater anxiety in life than going home to visit your mother for Christmas.

Parvus denied that universal suffrage was an end to itself since the middle class would always find ways to manipulate the electoral system. Freedom could not be begged for: it had to be won.

I never said I was funny, OK, so stop staring at me.

Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation.

Garden work consists much more in uprooting weeds than in planting seed. This applies also to teaching.

The depersonalizati on of diagnosis and therapy has changed malpractice from an ethical into a technical problem.

I was not always free from melancholy; but even melancholy had its charms.

God may be a human creation, but He goes His way, not ours.

Every hour spent investigating a drug user or seller is an hour that could have been used to find a missing child.

Every so often you have to increase your profile so you can let it lower again, like a balloon.

When a fantasy turns you on, you're obligated to God and nature to start doing it right away.