Pray to catch the bus, then run as fast as you can.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Creativity occurs in the moment, and in the moment we are timeless.

Anger is meant to be acted upon. It is not meant to be acted out.

No matter what your age or your life path, whether making art is your career or your hobby or your dream, it is not too late or too egotistical or too selfish or too silly to work on your creativity.

Serious art is born from serious play.

The reward for attention is always healing.

Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness

Fame is not the same as success, and in our true souls we know that.

Timid young artists, adding parental fears to their own, often give up their sunny dreams of artistic careers, settling into the twilight world of could-have-beens and regrets.

Art is not about thinking something up. It is about the opposite—getting something down.

Regardless of how far we have come, we are still looking for answers. While many are being answered, what we really want to know is how we can make our lives better.

Thought is a strenuous art - few practice it, and then only at rare times.

I'd rather run a gutsy race, pushing all the way and lose, than run a conservative race only for a win.

I'll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.

If life ever stops inspiring us to write, it's time to stop doing what we do.

True poetry, like the religious prompting itself, springs from the emotional side of a man's complex nature, and is ever in harmony with his highest intuitions and aspirations.

Not only was I not born to be a slave; I was not born to hope to become the equal of the slave master.

We're spending, on average, three times more for prison than for public-school pupils. That's the dumbest investment policy. It doesn't make us safer.

Our success multiplies each time we lead someone else to success.

Be a harsh critic of your own wins.