The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. Authority over him and his art is ridiculous.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Discover your calling and let go of the past

My genius is not so frail a thing that it cowers from the dirty fingers of newspapernen.

The superior man, extensively studying all learning, and keeping himself under the restraint of the rules of propriety, may thus likewise not overstep what is right.

So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work is not so linear.

Great writers zealously learn the craft of their profession so they can release the power and the depth of their imagination and experience.

Power without guilt, love without doubt.

Human language can but imperfectly describe God's ways.

I guess my poems feel to me a bit like they are doing something in relation to experience, i.e. time.

Now, having seen the differences between where you are and where you want to be, begin to change-consciously change-your thoughts, words, and actions to match your grandest vision.

I suppose what's unique about our presentation is the amount of Scripture that kids get.