Your hopes and dreams, as well as your perception of the world around you, come through in your work and make it unique.

Get in touch with yourself. The fountain of creativity begins with the stream of conscious thought flowing inside you. Open the floodgate and creative ideas come rushing out.

Every human being has creative powers. You were born to create. Appreciate your inborn potential.

Color is one way the eye and the brain work together to define the external world. However, not all cultures see color in the same way, nor do they give it as much importance as in western culture.

Positive attitude accelerates your development as a creative person. Believe in yourself.

Smash creative blocks. Change the problem or sneak up on it from a different direction. Try something fresh - a new way with an old theme, a different point of view, unusual tool.

When you finish for the day, write a note reminding yourself of what you plan to do next. This helps you to remember today's great idea when you get back to work tomorrow.

Pay attention to the inner voice that tells you when something feels right. Much of your creative problem-solving occurs at an unconscious level.

Creativity needs to be exercised to grow strong.

Take imagination breaks... Relaxed attention is one of the most important states of mind for creativity, and sometimes it has to be learned.

Gather knowledge... Visit galleries, museums, art and craft fairs... Read books and magazines. Take workshops. Use your senses. Experience stimulates your memory and imagination.

Writers will happen in the best of families.

Silence, when correctly timed, can speak multitudes of words to a person, without any extra effort on your part.

I chose to spend the day with you. And I'm choosing now to have dinner with you.

Certain battles were won by retreating.

Beliefs are the determinants of what one experiences. There are no external 'causes.'

If only life were that simple; if one could jump to the good parts and flick through the bad.

Leaders can only lead willing, preferably zealous followers so don't get too far out in front of your team.

To be great, one does not have to be mad, but definitely it helps.

It's a sleepy, wonderful, idyllic town but there's a curse on it from 100 years ago, ... The people who died in this kind of boating accident have come back to take their revenge.

It's a lot easier to buy things than it is to sell them.