I think of making love and making art as being very parallel. Even the most amateur attempt can be thrilling.

Growth is an erratic forward movement: two steps forward, one step back. Remember that and be very gentle with yourself.

What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us.

The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people’s expectations.

I have learned, as a rule of thumb, never to ask whether you can do something. Say, instead, that you are doing it. Then fasten your seat belt. The most remarkable things follow.

Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough - that we should try again.

It takes constant vigilance not to slip into negativity or simple apathy. It takes courage to believe over any given period of time that we are getting better and not sliding into decline.

As you move toward a dream, the dream moves toward you.

Creativity requires faith. Faith requires that we relinquish control.

If we lean into what we love instead of soldiering toward what we 'should,' our pace quickens, our energy rises, optimism sets in. What we love is nutritious for us.

What we focus on, we empower and enlarge. Good multiplies when focused upon. Negativity multiplies when focused upon. The choice is ours: Which do we want more of?

I'll write about my past but I won't talk about it. I'll turn it into art if I can, but I won't talk about it.

The idea that women are 'our own worst enemies' forces us to admit that we don't have the power to be, even if we wanted too.

In every experience we get to choose either love or fear as a response. Your character is formed by the percentages of those choices, which then forms your life.

Who judges the judge who judges wrong?

Positive thinking is so firmly enshrined in our culture that knocking it is a little like attacking motherhood or apple pie.

I'm in great shape, back-in-my-football-days shape. I've worked hard to get to this point.

Everyone is an expert on T.V., just as he is on education; everyone has some education and a T.V. set.

Only when we're broken are we whole.

If you keep a thing seven years, you are sure to find a use for it.

Life with another person is always difficult.