If you haven't proclaimed it in your own life, do it now. Say, "I am an artist.

When we give ourselves permission to go wherever our outlandish thoughts take us, we feel that rush of creativity and excitement.

Whether the changes that are coming in your life will be unexpected or determined by your choices and actions, the wheels are in motion. The adventure has just begun.

When you find your passion, turn a deaf ear to the naysayers and follow your dreams.

Spend one more day in pursuit of art that only you can produce, and somewhere, someone is envying your courage to do just that.

Putting our art out there is one of the biggest risks we can take. It's a special kind of vulnerability. It takes guts to be an artist.

I've realized I don't need to keep looking for my path. I'm already on it. I just need to trust where it leads.

As artists, it is our job to question the rules and ask if they are relevant or outdated, necessary or arbitrary, helpful or oppressive.

If your art is calling to you, its doing so for a reason. You are feeling a pull toward something for which your soul is yearning.

It's ever so fun and fulfilling to be clever, but more lasting and effective to be consistent.

Never let your goals or convictions get in the way of living your life. It's not about who dies with more, it's about who lived the most.

Don't look around for the path you are meant to follow, forge it yourself.

A 'good' family, it seems, is one that used to be better.

Experience tells you what to do confidence allows you to do it.

Voters quickly forget what a man says.

I've spent various periods of my career being thought of as various things, various degrees of substance and ideas.

In the darkest days, the Lord puts the best people into your life." (p. 28)

It's not unusual for kids in their twenties to be mad at their parents.

If it is impossible to judge merit and guilt in the field of natural science, then it is not possible in any field, and historical research becomes an idle, empty activity.

I cant justify taking money away from hungry kids and needy schools to pay for the Games when corporations are willing to write the checks.

The most important thing about education is appetite.