Your humanity is your instrument.
All of us contain a divine, expressive spark, a creative candle intended to light our path and that of our fellows.
The Artist's Way is a spiritual journey, a pilrimage home to the self.
Anger is meant to be acted on. It is not meant to be acted out. Anger points the direction. We are meant to use anger as fuel to take the actions we need to move where our anger points us. With a little thought, we can usually translate the message that our anger is sending us.
As an experienced artist, I carry my work like a secret pregnancy. I am always aware of inner life and the need to protect it.
Taking the time to write in our lives gives us the time of our lives. As we describe our environments, we begin to savor them. Even the most rushed and pell-mell life begins to take on the patina of being cherished.
Survival lies in sanity, and sanity lies in paying attention. . . the capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.
My hope and prayer is that everyone know and love our country for what she really is and what she stands for.
The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.
Take your job seriously, but not yourself
Over the years, the U. S. economy has shown a remarkable ability to absorb shocks of all kinds, to recover, and to continue to grow. Flexible and efficient markets for labor and capital, an entrepreneurial tradition, and a general willingness to tolerate and even embrace technological and economic change all contribute to this resiliency.