Imagination is the cornerstone of human endeavor.

Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom!

Creativity is more than mere imagination. It is imagination inseparably coupled with both intent and effort.

Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud. Any of us will put out more and better ideas if our efforts are appreciated.

Each of us has an Aladdin's Lamp which psychologists call creative imagination.

If you go fishing you may not catch any fish. If you don't go fishing, you'll never catch any fish.

It's much easier to tame a wild idea than invigorate one that has no life in the first place.

Whatever creative success I gained was due to my belief that creative power can be stepped up by effort, and that there are ways in which we can guide our creative thinking.

Necessity may be mother of invention, but fun is the father.

Any of us will put out more and better ideas if our efforts are appreciated.

As in the piling up of hypothetical alternatives, creative accidents follow the law of probabilities the more we fish, the more likely we are to get a strike.

Every day in America is a day with a shooting.

Sometimes … I think parents work so hard to keep us from making their mistakes, they won’t allow us to make our own.

When we take our eyes off the whirl of day-to-day activity and concentrate on honoring Him and following in His way, we find a consistent peace that carries us through both plenty and poverty.

The trouble with getting introspective when you're pregnant is that you never know who you might run into.

Love beyond the damage.

I can play rhythm guitar. I know how to hold a guitar and strum it.

The hoopla with all the award season is kind of mind-boggling. It kind of puts you on your heels.

I wake up: I am mental, I got to bed and I am mental, I am mental within my dreams, I am mental within my normal state, I'm out of my mind.

There's a lot of things I want to do. I want to learn Italian. I want to learn to play tennis better. I want to motivate the world, basically.

As an athlete you have to be coachable. And being coachable is a humbling thing.