Creativity is a distinctive trait of human excellence in all domains of behavior.

It takes courage to be creative. Just as soon as you have a new idea, you are in a minority of one.

One of the most powerful wellsprings of creative energy, outstanding accomplishment, and self-fulfillment seems to be falling in love with something - your dreams, your image of the future.

Creativity is the process of sensing problems or gaps in information, then identifying the difficulties and seeking solutions through trial and error or through forming hypotheses.

One's self-image and image of the future have a great deal to do with what that person is motivated to do and able to do, as well as the extent to which he is able to change his behavior.

So I got dressed up kind of Girl With The Dragon Tattoo-y goth. As I head out, I say bye to Mum and Dad, and Mum says, ‘You look cool’, just as Dad says, ‘You look terrifying.

I was raised in a very old fashioned Ireland where women were reared to be lovely.

I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel.

They wish for a general government of unity, as they see that the local legislatures must naturally and necessarily tend to retard the general government.

Blessed is he whose own faults keep him from seeing the faults of others.

When love enters, the whole spiritual constitution of a man changes, is filled with the Holy Ghost, and almost his form is altered.

The divine love of God turns ordinary acts into extraordinary service.

No god is absent where prudence dwells.

If tolerance and kindness and acceptance and love are political, then I guess I am political.

I believe that there should be a very much heavier progressive tax on very large incomes, a tax which should increase in a very marked fashion for the gigantic incomes.