If an artist comes intuitively from the point of design, notan - lightness/darkness - is natural.

Having a favorite color is like having a favorite lung.

Play is your route to mastery.

Having a favourite colour is like having a favourite lung.

Value choices are intuitive... It's fun to see how much you can get without leaning on contrast.

There's a saying that goes, 'The universe gives you a whisper, then a nudge, then a push and then an anvil on your head.

Joy is my energy and energy is my powerhouse.

Learning a new thing is a shortcut to joy and informs your area of mastery.

Vibrancy is only as effective as the mastering of restraint.

Ideas bubble differently when we're forced to inquire about the obvious.

Study the processes and methods of those who are better at it than you... there's someone who knows something you don't, who has honed a skill more than you have. Rival your rival.

you must be careful with kindness. It's usually mistaken for weakness by stupid people.

To be able to put oneself in another’s position, to be able to see and to feel as another person does, this is the rare gift of an earnest spiritual seeker.

When your eyes are fixed on the horizon of eternity, it affects your vision for motherhood.

The mind's cross-indexing puts the best librarian to shame.

What I enjoy most about being on stage is that the natural instruments give you a greater freedom with texture. When you use natural instruments they have their own resonance.

Great performers welcome pressure.

Do you feel better?” I asked Sam as he opened the door to the Volkswagen for me. “Yes,” he said. He was still a terrible liar. “Good,” I said. I was still a fantastic one.

I've been writing since I was 7, but before that, I was orally making stories.

Wrapt up in error is the human mind, And human bliss is ever insecure; Know we what fortune yet remains behind? Know we how long the present shall endure?

To create a little flower is the labour of ages.