If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

What one can be, one must be!

The key question isn't "What fosters creativity?" But why in God's name isn't everyone creative? Where was the human potential lost? How was it crippled? I think therefore a good question might not be why do people create? But why do people not create or innovate? We have got to abandon that sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle that anybody created anything.

...the great lesson is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's backyard.