Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.

Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.

Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.

A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world.

Take what you can use and let the rest go by.

There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.

Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.