You are not your idea, and if you identify too closely with your ideas, you will take offense when they are challenged.

If everyone is trying to prevent error, it screws things up.

If you give a good idea to a mediocre group, they'll screw it up. If you give a mediocre idea to a good group, they'll fix it. Or they'll throw it away and come up with something else.

If you aren't experiencing failure, then you are making a far worse mistake: You are being driven by the desire to avoid it.

Creativity doesn't follow titles. It just comes from where it comes from.

Art isn't about drawing; it's about learning to see. What organization doesn't need this ability?

Success hides problems...you don't need to address problems.

For me, creativity includes problem-solving. That's the broad definition of it.

Every creative person can draft into service those around them who exhibit the right mixture of intelligence, insight, and grace.

I love solving the problems of having groups work together and removing barriers. But to actually turn around and be in the center of that is an awkward place to be.

You can give a great film idea to a mediocre team and they may screw it up, but if you give a mediocre idea to a great team, they will turn it into a great film.

Sometimes just getting through each day requires almost superhuman strength.

Not truth but faith it is that keeps the world alive.

The Socratic demonstration of the ultimate unity of tragic and comic drama is forever lost. But the proof is in the art of Chekhov.

Is action merely the incidental product of thought, or is thought the consequential product of action?

A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts it so that it can never again hold quite as much love for her.

Always keep looking forward, and never look back.

Look, if America - if being an American means anything, it means not having to lie under oath, not even for the president.

US policy toward Cuba [at the time] had two tracks. Track 1 was to assassinate Fidel Castro. Track 2 was to subvert the regime through people-to-people contact.

Mind's requirements and expectations cannot be fulfilled. Existence has no obligation to fulfill mind's requirements and demands. You have to accept existence as it is.

To love each other's essence and to be one-what could be more divine!