If we operate with a belief in long sweeps of time, we build cathedrals; if we operate from fiscal quarter to fiscal quarter, we build ugly shopping malls.

Every moment of life is unique-a kiss, a sunset, a dance, a joke. None will ever recur in quite the same way. Each happens only once in the history of the universe.

The most potent muse of all is our own inner child.

Improvisation is intuition in action, a way to discover the muse and learn to respond to her call.

The easiest way to do art is to dispense with success and failure altogether and just get on with it.

Structure ignites spontaneity. Limits yield intensity. When we play... by our self-chosen rules, we find that containment of strength amplifies strength.

The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge.

Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of ones chosen form.

To do anything artistically you have to acquire technique, but create through your technique and not with it.

Surrender means cultivating a comfortable attitude toward not knowing, being nurtured by the mystery of moments that are dependably surprising, ever fresh.

Any action can be practiced as an art, as a craft, or as drudgery.

I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.

Heavenly Father you are all I have got. May your unfailing love surround me.

A great democracy has got to be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy.

There was never any danger of Business 2.0 ever going under.

I was raised Jewish and bar mitzvahed.

Words mean little unless you realize the truth of it yourself. And when you do, you'll be free at last.

The internet is very democratizing in some ways, but it also has other effects.

There are subtle ways and overt ways of alienating a child from a parent, but either way it's evil

A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way.

Happiness is open to all, since, when you boil it down, it merely consists of contentment with what you have got and doing what you can for other people.