Gratifying when the basics reflect a fresh light, leading to real continuing ed.

You can't hit it out of the park if you're not at the plate

Become a maniac on a mission: How to succeed in any venture or business .

Failure is a signpost on the trail to success

Creativity is salve for the soul

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but ingenuity is the bombshell of success

Recovery from complete and utter exhaustion facilitates individual creativity

Good" now is better than "Best" never.

Discovery's friend is creativity

The worst outcome of not trying is never getting to fail.

Once again discovered: Do what you do because you enjoy. If expect others to give credit or honor your work, you are due for disappointment

There's no denying that candy is comfort food and it's affordable.

My generation is under-entertained.

What happens is, when I perform, I'm somewhere else. I go back in time and get in touch with who I really am. I forget my troubles, my worries.

Adversity in life does not rob your heart of beauty. It simply teaches it a new song to sing.

I don't know WHEN I'll be big enough to play!

So I think rather than being attracted so much now to working with my heroes, I'm sort of more attracted to working with completely unlikely strangers because it's more exciting really.

The unwillingness to try is worse than any failure.

She sees ghosts,” said Samuel, impatient with my whining. I see dead people,” I deadpanned back. Oddly, it was Uncle Mike who laughed. I hadn’t thought he’d be a moviegoer.

On Sunday, something washed up on shore.

That talk of inspiration is sheer nonsense; there is no such thing. It is a mere matter of craftsmanship.