How we respond to the opportunities and challenges of the outside world now determines how much the outside world values us.

Optimism is the most important human trait, because it allows us to evolve our ideas, to improve our situation, and to hope for a better tomorrow.

The secret to being wrong isn't to avoid being wrong! The secret is being willing to be wrong. The secret is realizing that wrong isn't fatal.

Art changes posture and posture changes innocent bystanders.

If you are deliberately trying to create a future that feels safe, you will willfully ignore the future that is likely.

The only way to get what you're worth is to stand out, to exert emotional labor, to be seen as indispensable, and to produce interactions that organizations and people care deeply about.

At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet.

If school is about postponing the day you have to stand up in front of the world and put yourself at risk, the resistance would like to stay there forever.

Great work is not created for everyone. If it were, it would be average work.

Artists are people with a genius for finding a new answer, a new connection, or a new way of getting things done.That would be you.

A genius looks at something that others are stuck on and gets the world unstuck.So the question is: Have you ever done that?

We fear beginnings we fear endings. We fear changing we fear “staying stuck.” We fear success we fear failure. We fear living we fear dying.

For the person with creative potential there is no wholeness except in using it.

Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.

Theater's my first love. I love it. It excites me. It feeds me.

Our planet is blessed with vast natural treasures. If we use them wisely, beginning with the elimination of militarism and war, every human being will be able to live a healthy, prosperous existence.

I think it's your own ghost, seeing the work and just thinking if it will be okay to leave that around.

Seven blunders of the world that lead to violence.

Your absence is the presence of godliness.

I'm so vigorous, and I so take it for granted, because I've always been a real physical person.

The books that matter to me...are those that galvanize something inside me. I read books to read myself.