We owe some of our successes to people who did not want to help us more than we do to those who have helped us.

Information is key, being informed is success.

All that the spider needs to complete its web is step taking

I Love the Smell of Success in the Shadows of Failure

It is the artist who tries to gradually accustom people to the possibilities of a better state of things.

We are never more creative than when we are at odds with the world and there is nothing so artistically destructive as comfort. Princess Leia taught me that.

If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.

Unless social sciences can be as creative as natural science, our new tools are not likely to be of much use to us.

Writers are not just writers, they are creators of worlds, sculptors of the mind, they are architects of language.

The world is changing rapidly, and everyone changes along with the world. Discoveries is now becoming rampant; intellectually, technologically,etc, each having its advantage and disadvantage.

When students cheat on exams it's because our school system values grades more than students value learning.

Not everybody has a talent for painting, or for the piano, or for dance. But we can write our way into the artist's head and into his problems and solutions. Or we can go there with another writer.

Creation pulls something from an abyss of nothing. Startups take the something & give it to those in the dark, at first, perhaps, for nothing.

In the time of to Augustine, the conversation in the West mostly had been a Christian reaction to outside ideas. After Augustine, the Great Conversation would be about his ideas for centuries.

It is appropriate to speak of the artisans as possessed of wisdom (and not just "skill"), because the biblical writers share the understanding common to most traditional societies that the active form...

The irony of sensory deprivation tanks is that in order to think outside the box, you must first go inside one.

Blank walls are a shared canvas and we're all artists.

You Russians like to think you're poets but perhaps you're just touchy.

Write them all down. The mistakes and the blessings and the places you cracked in two. Write the prayers and the tantrums. The sacred and the profane. The open roads and the closed doors. Nothing is p...

I am growing old enough not to care much for the MANNER of doing things.