Know that it is good to work. Work with love and think of liking it when you do it.

Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable.

This is what I learned: that everybody is talented, original and has something important to say.

I will tell you what I have learned myself. For me, a long five or six mile walk helps. And one must go alone and every day.

Work freely and rollickingly as though you were talking to a friend who loves you. Mentally (at least three or four times a day) thumb your nose at all know-it-alls, jeerers, critics, doubters.

When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life.

We are always afraid to start something that we want to make very good, true, and serious.

I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in kindergarten, - happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another.

The tragedy of bold, forthright, industrious people is that they act so continuously without much thinking, that it becomes dry and empty.

Families are great murderers of the creative impulsive, particularly husbands.

No writing is a waste of time – no creative work where the feelings, the imagination, the intelligence must work. With every sentence you write, you have learned something. It has done you good.

Love hurts worse than getting slammed by a 250-pound linebacker.

I won't be a substitute for what you cannot have. Especially not if it is my sister's shadow you mean to place me in.

Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.

I never realized how many holidays encroached on the collegiate training schedule. When I was training for the Olympics, only one holiday interested me, the Day After the Games.

And I've also come to the conclusion that, as far as guitar solos and things like that are concerned, it's more important to complement the music rather than take away from it.

The Middle East is totally destabilized. A total and complete mess.

We need do no more than repeat: only under communism does the individual become himself and lead his own life.

Whenever I'm broadcasting, I like it. When I'm broadcasting I can't wait to hear what I say.

Of the influence of Mr. Mill's personal character on those who were his political associates, it is difficult to speak too warmly.

I don't just want to be the best black player or the best Asian player. I want to be the best golfer ever.