The truth is that creative activity is one that involves the entire self - our emotions, our levels of energy, our characters, and our minds.

It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a shell of limited goals and immediate pleasures.

The time that leads to mastery is dependent on the intensity of our focus.

The pain is kind of challenge your mind presents - will you learn how to focus and move past boredom, or like a child will you succumb to the need for immediate pleasure and distraction?

It is time to reverse this prejudice against conscious effort and to see the powers we gain through practice and discipline as eminently inspiring and even miraculous.

How can we explain such inclinations? They are forces within us that come from a deeper place than conscious words can express.They draw us to certain experiences and away from others.

Jinx, I know you just lost your grandfather, but you straighten out your tone right now or I will smack you one!

Much of someone's real character lies in what they don't say about themselves.

COVERT CONVERTIf you don't believe in God, then believe in the hidden camera

I felt as if each person within visual range were slowly draining the life from me. We were all connected, and the more them there were, the more I wanted to crawl under a table and cry.

Big, ugly homes for big, ugly people, ' I told Margo as we pulled into Casavilla.'No shit. If I ever end up being the kind of person who has one kid and seven bedrooms, do me a favor and shoot me.

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10, 000 men to guard the past.

There is a very fine line between love and nausea.

Joking decides great things, Stronger and better oft than earnest can.

Production is not the application of tools to materials, but logic to work.

A careless shoe string, in whose tie I see a wilde civility.