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.

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.

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.

It is easier to tone down a wild idea than to think up a new one.

There was a brief silence. I think I heard snow falling.

Don't be afraid to make a mistake your readers might like it.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

I had to make a confession of faith in stone. That was the beginning of the tower, the house I built for myself at Bollingen.

Where timber vegetation is ruthlessly destroyed, aridity and its sequence sterility will prevail and the hotter the climate, the more to be dreaded.

A democracy is predicated on an educated citizenry. You cannot have a democracy with people that are more interested in what Nicole Kidman is doing or whoever the latest fashion model is.

when God said "let there be light" I turned it the f-k off.

She should get a divorce and settle down.

Let your kids observe you doing random acts of kindness, it can be contagious

Meditation is perhaps the master key for all our problems.