In those glorious moments when someone sees, really sees, your art and bothers to tell you so, relish it!

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As artists, it is our job to question the rules and ask if they are relevant or outdated, necessary or arbitrary, helpful or oppressive.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

I hope to soon be in contact with the man who is searching for Noah's ark.

It takes brains. It's not like a forward, where you can get away with scoring and not play defense. On defense you have to be thinking.

Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.

My problem is I'm an addictive personality. I can't have one coffee. I can't eat one piece of chocolate. I can't have a little bit of drugs.

Life: I'll never understand it.

I rarely find motive in bird vomit.

Before you start pointing fingers, make sure your hands are clean.

Scientists are doing an awful lot of damage to the world in the name of helping it. I don't mind attacking my own fraternity because I am ashamed of it.

The television commercial is not at all about the character of products to be consumed. It is about the character of the consumers of products. (128)

But if the U.S. were to leave now and abandon Iraq without establishing the grounds for a united country, that would definitely be a second mistake.