The imagination needs moodling,--long, inefficient happy idling, dawdling and puttering.

Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable.

This is what I learned: that everybody is talented, original and has something important to say.

I will tell you what I have learned myself. For me, a long five or six mile walk helps. And one must go alone and every day.

Work freely and rollickingly as though you were talking to a friend who loves you. Mentally (at least three or four times a day) thumb your nose at all know-it-alls, jeerers, critics, doubters.

When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life.

We are always afraid to start something that we want to make very good, true, and serious.

I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in kindergarten, - happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another.

The tragedy of bold, forthright, industrious people is that they act so continuously without much thinking, that it becomes dry and empty.

Families are great murderers of the creative impulsive, particularly husbands.

No writing is a waste of time – no creative work where the feelings, the imagination, the intelligence must work. With every sentence you write, you have learned something. It has done you good.

A lion does not flinch at laughter coming from a hyena.

In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.

Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I'm taking with me when I go.

A Martian would think that the English worship at supermarkets, not in churches.

Don't do what we did. Make sure it's right and make sure it's what you wanna do. Make sure it's actually a good deal, that you're not going to lose out too much on it.

I must point out - Sarah Jessica Parker is not a diva - she's one of these pop culture characters that everybody likes.

Jesus came to raise the dead. He did not come to teach the teachable; He did not come to improve the improvable; He did not come to reform the reformable. None of those things works.

I am happiest when I'm sitting on my parent's couch with the fire place on and talking to my family.

Work is my norm. I have mad energy, insane energy, a kind of stamina in terms of work that's a little crazy.

Most jobs are outsourced to the past, they aren't outsourced to India or Mexico or Pakistan or anywhere else.