Very few positive experiences begin with being told to count back slowly from ten.
There's nothing clinically wrong with me, only an emotional imbalance - I pass too quickly from the wildest enthusiasm to the blackest despair.
Color was not given to us in order that we should imitate Nature. It was given to us so that we can express our emotions.
Creative people are curious, flexible, and independent with a tremendous spirit and a love of play.
There are always flowers for those who want to see them.
Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while one is working.
The artists must see all things as if he were seeing them for the first time. All his life he must see as he did when he was a child.
I maintain that some Jew wrote it who probably heard about Christian people but never encountered any.
One practical point many experts will attest to is that if you want to develop someone as a leader, give them lots of responsibility early in their lives and careers. The military does that. I can remember being officer of the deck on a destroyer, on watch and in charge at two in the morning as we plowed through the Mediterranean while 300 shipmates slept below decks. I was 25 at the time. I don't know how much of a leader I ever became, but the experience certainly brought home to me a sense of responsibility for others.
Life is not a chain of events but an area-something spreading out from a hidden centre and welling at once toward all points of the compass.
Here's to all the places we went. And all the places we'll go. And here's to me, whispering again and again and again and again: iloveyou