Stop tolerating in your leaders what you would not tolerate in your friends.

To be physically astute and psychologically tended, yet morally insulated and conceptually blind--is to be crazy, not healthy.

Our choices are truncated in evil's presence.

My spirit life is also the medium in which I live. It's not something that comes and goes. Without one the other wouldn't exist.

People are judged continuously everywhere on the most intimate level by the prices on their head. Most of them accept the judgment. It's very hard to have self-respect, or to maintain a state of creativity under these conditions.

Courage can't make you an artist, but without that courage, you won't remain one for long. First is the courage to be alone in the room where you create, and the courage to face that indefinitely, with no one to say if you are any good or not. Then, there is the courage to follow your work wherever it's going to take you. And the courage to fight for your work.

If your vulnerability has become hardened, it's very, very difficult to be creative.