With wine ideas flow, without ideas wine flows.

Creativity isn't about avoiding frustration. It's about pushing through and coming out the other side.

Leadership is more about purpose than it is about position.

Leaders step up, even when they feel like hiding. And they do so because they care.

If we don’t communicate, we certainly can’t get much done and if we don’t communicate authentically, what we get done is less effective.

Creative freedom is prosperity for the soul.

A catalyst by definition creates a reaction, but itself remains unchanged. Be a positive catalyst for a cause you are passionate about. I dare you to remain unchanged!

I'm not reinventing myself. I'm finding myself. There's a difference!

Knowing how you want your work to look helps you decide who best to work with and where.

Just because others don't understand your journey doesn't mean you're not on the right one. After all, it is YOURS!

Yes, you are creative and in slow, languid times, creativity peers out of your soul like a field mouse from its burrow at night.

...it's only on a black day that you begin to have friends.

At times you have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.

I like when something makes you think after you stop watching.

When you back off, it's easier to do mistakes. For me it's better to ski fast.

At any age it does us no harm to look over our past shortcomings and plan to improve our characters and actions in the coming year.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy - and Jill a wealthy widow.

No change of job, no increased income, no new home, no new electronic device, or no new spouse is going to make things better inside of you.

The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.

Titles are abolished; and the American Republic swarms with men claiming and bearing them.

I have had strange animals as pets all my life. I was shy growing up, and shy people tend to interact better with animals than people. Animals are direct, not duplicitous.