Live intensely and dangerously. The world may not depend on your efforts, but you do.

Life is too short not to create, not to love, and not to lend a helping hand to our brothers and sisters.

Dream, but expect nothing. Desire, but expect nothing. Hope, but expect nothing. Release your need to control and gain real control.

There are an infinite number of rewards you could bestow on yourself for working at your creative projects, and you deserve every one of them.

We have enough experiences in a day to make art for a decade.

When you flow like water you bring all of your talents and resources to your creative work... Flow around every obstacle you encounter, including any you've erected yourself.

If, because of anxiety and self-doubt, you procrastinate and only think about working, you'll feel more exhausted than if you'd created for hours.

You can't plan in advance for everything - every mood swing, every mistake you might make in execution, every shift in your circumstances. But you can keep updating your plan.

The artist's personality, built upon strong desires and compassionate vision, is by its nature prone to depression.

Talent is so loaded a word, so full to the brim with meanings, that an artist might be wise to forget about it altogether and just keep on working.

One visit with a child can supply us with enough creativity dust to last for a lifetime... Visit with children like you're the child you ought to be more often.

Never limit your view of life by any past experience.

In no other type of warfare does the advantage lie so heavily with the aggressor.

The rich today are richer, there are more of them, they have round-the-clock propaganda factories in Rupert Murdoch's empire and rightwing talk radio, and corporate media have their back.

Moderation, we find, is an extremely difficult thing to get in this country.

I listened for the echo, and I heard only praise —

Forgiveness means that you do not carry the baggage of an experience.

Fear is the contradiction of faith. Faith says, Whatever it is, it'll be okay because of God.

I support women, men, anybody who is in a place that's not their strongest and who is ready to push forward.

A great, great deal has been said about the weather, but very little has ever been done.

My mind was clear and penetrating at the time, for it was midnight, the hour at which I am most brave and most free.