When we are on our right path, we have a surefootedness.

So much of an artist's career hinges on the sense that we are going somewhere, that we are not just trapped by the four walls of wherever we are. For creative sanity, I must believe that if I just do the next right thing, a path will unfold for me.

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

Once we are willing to accept that anything worth doing might even be worth doing badly, our options widen.

Often it is tenacity, not talent, that rules the day.

But do you know how old I will be by the time I learn to really play the piano / act / paint / write a decent play?" Yes . . . the same age you will be if you don't.

No matter how sophisticated our lives may be we need to think of ourselves as creative children.