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

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.

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

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

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.

One of the best parts of being a Guardian is that we get a chance to grow and change. We get to exist in both worlds. We know the secret of life and have the knowledge of death

A captain of the Navy ought to be a man of strong and well connected sense, with a tolerable good education, a gentleman, as well as a seaman both in theory and practice.

Nor does night conceal men's deeds of ill, but whatsoe'er thou dost, think that some God beholds it.

Nature shows us only the tail of the lion. But there is no doubt in my mind that the lion belongs with it even if he cannot reveal himself to the eye all at once because of his huge dimension.

Cowards do not count in battle; they are there, but not in it.

Without a home must the soldier go, a changeful wanderer, and can warm himself at no home-lit hearth.

When I was in Vegas women were throwing their hotel keys at me. But it was after they checked out.

O Conscience, into what abyss of fears And horrors hast thou driven me, out of which I find no way, from deep to deeper plunged.

Acceptance, tolerance, bravery, compassion. These are the things my mom taught me!

My roots are still in Britain, that's where I live, that's the place where I come from.