Improvisation can be either a last resort or an established way of evoking creativity.

We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.

The past empowers the present, and the sweeping footsteps leading to this present mark the pathways to the future.

The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.

What would it be like to have not only color vision but culture vision, the ability to see the multiple worlds of others.

There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors.

As you get up in the morning, as you make decisions, as you spend money, make friends, make commitments, you are creating a piece of art called your life.

When parents die, all of the partings of the past are reevoked with the realization that this time they will not return.

The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.

Worlds can be found by a child and an adult bending down and looking together under the grass stems or at the skittering crabs in a tidal pool.

Every loss recapitulates earlier losses, but every affirmation of identity echoes earlier moments of clarity.

Dip him in the river who loves water.

What we believe spirit visitors to be influences how they affect our lives. What we believe ourselves to be dictates how we react to them.

[Freedom is] the societal condition that exists when every individual has 100% control of his own property.

It's nice and quiet but soon again starts another big riot!

Any step away from the cross is a step in the wrong direction.

In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks help alleviate that fear.

Going on stage and doing ballet, for the first time, was even more verification of, "This is what I'm meant to do. This is what I'm going to do. I'm going to make it somehow."

My priority, the most important thing in my life is my family, my wife and my son.

Take the craziest dream you ever had and go after it. Make it a reality. I don't want you to dream, I want you to do.

I'm an old-fashioned person, and I don't like informers.