In times of pain, when the future is too terrifying to contemplate and the past too painful to remember, I have learned to pay attention to right now. The precise moment I was in was always the only safe place for me.

I plant the seeds of love in my heart. I plant the seeds of love in the hearts of others.

We are not accustomed to thinking that God's will for us and our own inner dreams can coincide.

I believe that what we want to write wants to be written. I believe that as I have an impulse to create, the something I want to create has an impulse to want to be born. My job, then, is to show up on the page and let that something move through me, in a sense, what wants to be written is none of my business.

In creativity, as in running, you have to start where you are.

Creativity is always a leap of faith. You're faced with a blank page, blank easel, or an empty stage.

In order to have a real relationship with our creativity, we must take the time and care to cultivate it.