There is a connection between self-nurturing and self-respect.

You are your own Promised Land, your own new frontier.

Art is an act of the soul, not the intellect. When we are dealing with people's dreams - their visions, really - we are in the realm of the sacred. We are involved with forces and energies larger than our own. We are engaged in a sacred transaction of which we know only a little: the shadow, not the shape.

As children we hoard and gloat over words. Words give ownership: we name our world and we claim it...Children trust the power of words.

Writing is like breathing, it's possible to learn to do it well, but the point is to do it no matter what.

As we move toward our dreams, we move toward our divinity.

Creativity is our true nature; blocks are an unnatural thwarting of a process at once as normal and as miraculous as the blossoming of a flower at the end of a slender green stem.