When it was suggested that I write a memoir I said, 'I'm not old enough. I'm not distinguished enough.' But I went home and sat down to write, and the material for the book just came flooding into my hands.

Art is the imagination at play in the field of time. Let yourself play.

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

At it's essence, art is an alchemical process. Alchemy is a process of transformation.

When we clear the physical clutter from our lives, we literally make way for inspiration and 'good, orderly direction' to enter.

When I listen to love, I am listening to my true nature. When I express love, I am expressing my true nature. All of us love. All of us do it more and more perfectly. The past has brought us both ashes and diamonds. In the present we find the flowers of what we've planted and the seeds of what we are becoming. I plant the seeds of love in my heart. I plant the seeds of love in the hearts of others.

Creativity is a spiritual issue.