Creativity makes life useful to us. It also makes us useful to life.

Stop telling yourself that dreams don't matter, that they are only dreams and that you should be more sensible.

All too often, it is audacity and not talent that moves an artist to center stage.

I honor the wisdom of life. I learn from life in all its forms. The tree teaches me. The sparrow and the wren sing my song. I am open to the lessons Life brings me from the earth. I learn from the wind, from the sun, from the small flowers, and from the stars. I walk without arrogance. I learn from all I encounter. I open my mind and heart to the guidance and love that come to me from the natural world.

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.

By being willing to be a bad artist, you have a chance to be an artist, and perhaps, over time, a very good one.

Creativity is God's gift to us. Using our creativity is our gift back to God.