Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse.

Growth is an erratic forward movement: two steps forward, one step back. Remember that and be very gentle with yourself.

What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us.

The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people’s expectations.

I have learned, as a rule of thumb, never to ask whether you can do something. Say, instead, that you are doing it. Then fasten your seat belt. The most remarkable things follow.

Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough - that we should try again.

It takes constant vigilance not to slip into negativity or simple apathy. It takes courage to believe over any given period of time that we are getting better and not sliding into decline.

As you move toward a dream, the dream moves toward you.

Creativity requires faith. Faith requires that we relinquish control.

If we lean into what we love instead of soldiering toward what we 'should,' our pace quickens, our energy rises, optimism sets in. What we love is nutritious for us.

What we focus on, we empower and enlarge. Good multiplies when focused upon. Negativity multiplies when focused upon. The choice is ours: Which do we want more of?

Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them.

The man unwilling to brave the test has already shown himself to be much more craven than the man who fails.

When they face desperation... human beings become animals.

The outlook of the world today is for the greatest era of commercial expansion in history. The rest of the world will become better customers.

It feels good when your hometown supports you, and Macon's always done that with us. Every time we come here, it's an event - which is nice.

On a purely technical side, I'm really very happy with how Linux gets used in a very wide set of different areas. It's important for development.

It has been rightly said that what a critic wants to understand he must, at one time, have deeply loved, even if only for a fleeting moment.

The last time I saw Marilyn was in late 1959, when I appeared in Let's Make Love at Fox. The wide-eyed Marilyn I had first known was gone. This Marilyn was more beautiful than ever.

The more complex the world situation becomes, the more scientific and rational analysis you have to have, the less you can do with simple good will and sentiment.

I didn't know I was going to become a designer; I was going to become a successful person, but I really wanted to be free.