In the process of making anything, a person moves beyond personal expression to make something that stands by itself. The work acquires its own internal validity, its own integrity.

During those rare moments of creativeness, when a person has something in common with the making of the universe, he feels a sense of transcendence. What could be a greater reward?

All creative activity begins with movement.

It is in [the] process of making something... that the creator contacts a concrete reality outside his subjective life and moves into the realm of the transcendent.

Creativity is a celebration of one's grandeur, one's sense of making anything possible.

The fact is that the creative person is a disciplined craftsman whose 'gift' is a reaching out toward his most profound personal potential.

Creativity is a celebration of life... I am here! I love life! I love me! I can be anything! I can do anything!

Art is prayer - not the vulgarized notations handed down to us in the scriptures, but a fresh vital discovery of one's own special presence in the world.

Excellent anthology... a celebration of our goodness and our potential for growth. The sense of celebration is stretched by the beautiful photographs.

Drawing or painting allows the artist to know himself as a whole person.

People helping people, builds stronger communities

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

Moving on means getting back on track to align with the opposite of what turned you off.

The public is gullible. ... If [many satirists are] making the same joke, that's the danger. Then there's a solidifying effect and it becomes a truth.

I wasn't writing stories with the intention of creating a particular collection. I simply wrote stories, and then discovered common themes among a good number of them.

I think you just have to have some rapport with the song.

What interests me most is neither still life nor landscape, but the human figure.

I turned off the talking politicos. Too much jabbering at each other. Not enough care about humans.

We cannot become starched Christians, too polite, who speak of theology calmly over tea. We have to become courageous Christians and seek out those (who need help most).

Let me sit in a flowerpot, The spiders won't notice. My heart is a stopped geranium.