If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don’t hoard it. Don’t dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke.

Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.

Other people's interruptions of your work are relatively insignificant compared with the countless times you interrupt yourself.

Scream at God if that's the only thing that will get results.

At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self.

People who ask our advice almost never take it. Yet we should never refuse to give it, upon request, for it often helps us to see our own way more clearly.

The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.

Inspirations never go in for long engagements they demand immediate marriage to action.

Every man through fear mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.

Some persons are very decisive when it comes to avoiding decisions.

A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice as well as of virtue to inspire him.

But then I was young, and to be young means to undertake to demolish the world and to have the gall to wish to erect a new and better one in its place.

Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.

When I had money everyone called me brother.

Art shows us that human beings still matter in a world where money talks the loudest, where computers know everything about us, and where robots fabricate our next meal and also our ride there.

We don't fight about music. We don't fight about artistic direction. The things like that we could fight about, we really don't. We are pretty lucky for that.

Change isn't always easy, but with purposeful practice, any old habit can be replaced with a way of being we would recommend to those we love.

I love walking along Leiths waterfront and wandering around some of New Towns beautiful streets and squares, with their gorgeous Georgian architecture.

A sculptor is a person obsessed with the form and the shape of things, and it's not just Ihe shape of any one thing, but the shape of any thing and everything.

The I is always in the field of the Other.

Music was born of love. Had there never been any human affection, there never could have been uttered a strain of music.