All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

If I die prematurely at any rate I shall be saved from being bored to death by my own success.

Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.

Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud.

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.

The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.

People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.

Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.

Wisdom’s Pearl doth often dwellClosed in Fancy’s rainbow shell

..when the first rubber ball smacked her in the head and made her brains rattle in her skull, she knew that something about this dodgeball game was different

Our doubts are traitors And make us lose the good we oft might win By fearing to attempt.

A nose that can see is worth two that sniff.

The goal of an artist is to create the definitive work that cannot be surpassed.

The media really only pays attention to white people. I think America is really racist.

The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent.

The greatest faith is born in the hour of despair. When we can see no hope and no way out, then faith rises and brings the victory.

You have to have a government that does give both money and energy to function in a leadership role modeling giving for the people. Government is supposed to lead by example in many cases.

No matter how great a writer, artist, or entrepreneur, he is a mortal, he is fallible. He is not proof against Resistance. He will drop the ball; he will crash. That’s why they call it rewriting.