Next to Morning Pages and Artist Dates, the most potent tool for contacting inner guidance and creativity is walking.

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?

From a purely physical standpoint she didn't have a chance, but her attitude was that death was better than capitulation.

My role as a role model is to teach my generation how to excel in the role of distinction.

I do not know where the error lies. I do not pretend to set people right, but I do see that they are often wrong.

You would think there is a higher bar than having a Facebook page to run for president.

I came to this office to solve problems, and not pass them on to future Presidents and future generations.

The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.

We need to act now. Otherwise the biodiversity that makes Australia so wonderfully unique is going to be lost to us forever.

We gather perfect fruit from perfect trees.

When there's a lot of it around, you never want it very much.

Where I grew up, Bob Wills and his western swing was very popular. And western swing is not that far from jazz and blues.