The best ideas must move you before they can move someone else.

Look at the blank pages before you with courage. Now fill them with beauty.

You will not be stuck forever. The trick is to know there are no tricks. There is, in fact, no easy way. There is only the work.

Vision is easy. Ideas are even easier. It's execution that separates the amateurs from the pros.

Most, if not all, creativity is born out of perspiration rather than inspiration.

Becoming an artist is about sitting and paying attention to the world that is passing everyone else by

In the end, the effectiveness of our creative process comes down to whether we’re going to whine or do the work.

My understanding of Chinese history is limited. So far, I have only scratched its surface; I wish I could find out more.

I'm a former mayor. I know that being a cop is not an easy job. But when police officers misbehave, they've got to be held accountable.

I have no ambitions beyond being comfortable in what I do for a living - and earning a living.

We are all one Energy Stream, but what makes the separations or distinguishes the differences is perspective. You are a unique and individual perspective.

Courage, garrulousness and the mob are on our side. What more do we want?

When a person has found something which he prefers to life itself, he for the first time has begun to live.

The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes.

Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds.

I'm supposed to be writing a book, and I can hardly read.

I grew up in the church and had religion in my life for a long time. I'm not really a church goer, but I definitely have a hunger for a spiritual connection to the world and for my soul to be healed.