Future is the most difficult problem of our era.

Creativity has many dimensions, with multi-faceted truth and myth and manifold knowledge.

You need a strategy to assume leadership, but only the character can sustain leaders as who they really are.

Creative person’s spirit and soul dance with passion and imagination.

Creativity is the ability to create novel value, creative mind is defined as the originator.

All humans are born with raw creativity ability, but not all creativities are created equal.

Creativity needs a problem, and the creative person needs a purpose.

Creativity is infused with an inner cohesion and comes from a vision of uniqueness.

Creativity muscle needs to be strengthened, and creativity excellence needs to be cultivated.

Creativity adds signature or aesthetic that elevates passion to purpose and fancy to enchantment.

Creativity needs encouragement as food, and conflict to spark it.

I used to believe in 'em [lines]. I don't anymore. They in our heads. People like Miss Hilly is always trying to make us believe they there. But they ain't." - Aibileen

Although technical discussions are interesting to composers, I suspect that the truly magical and spiritual powers of music arise from deeper levels of our psyche.

We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.

All autobiography is self-indulgent.

I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration and a model for the beauty of language.

I feel the problems I have are meant to purify me.

In the circumstances in which the Republic finds itself, the constitution cannot be inaugurated; it would destroy itself. The provisional government of France is revolutionary until there is peace.

I do what I did as a hobby as a kid, you know, and make a living at it. And I just feel like I'm one of the luckiest guys in the world 'cuz I get paid to make toys and play with them.

When your child is looking up at you and you are putting them to bed at night, and they are just lying there, you have to remind yourself that's what it's all about.

They were conspiring to desert us in the night and steal some of our horses... we engaged a spy.