The essential element in nurturing our creativity lies in nurturing ourselves.

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?

J.W. and Roy didn’t just snatch the childhood away from Emmett

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

Only he knew that to be left alone is not always to be forsaken.

My first wife didn't like to fly, either.

I'd always liked to read, but when I picked up books I wasn't getting the same kind of excitement from them that I was from going out clubbing. I wanted to get the same kind of feel.

I'd like to be Dakota Fanning when I get young.

Assuredly, meeting after absence, is one of - ah, no! - it is life's most delicious feeling.

It is not enough that Jesus died. Someone must apply the blood of Jesus to the national sin of (the) USA.

it is axiomatic with most writing people that there are no such things as perfect conditions for work.