The energy within you is stronger than ever for being held back, compressed, and said No to.

There are always flowers for those who want to see them.

Creative people are curious, flexible, and independent with a tremendous spirit and a love of play.

Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while one is working.

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.

The essential thing is to work in a state of mind that approaches prayer.

Color was not given to us in order that we should imitate Nature. It was given to us so that we can express our emotions.

Ever since there have been men, man has given himself over to too little joy. That alone, my brothers, is our original sin. I should believe only in a God who understood how to dance.

The artist begins with a vision - a creative operation requiring effort. Creativity takes courage.

I wouldn't mind turning into a vermilion goldfish.

Don't try to be original. Be simple. Be good technically, and if there is something in you, it will come out.

If the road is easy, you're likely going the wrong way.

Every single ONE of us is a unique VIBRATION in a beautiful Symphony of Infinite CREATION.

Zombies weren't the true plague of the world, laziness was.

(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.

I think Charley Pride has been one of the best things to happen to country music, to prove it belongs to everybody.

Sometimes believers are hampered in their public effectiveness by limitations that are no fault of their own.

Today, as never before, the fates of men are so intimately linked to one another that a disaster for one is a disaster for everybody.

And yet--it is not beauty that inspires the deepest passion. Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. Beauty, without expression, tires.

When revelation comes write it down.

The algebraic sum of all the transformations occurring in a cyclical process can only be positive, or, as an extreme case, equal to nothing. Statement of the second law of thermodynamics, 1862