We commonly think of freedom as the ability to define alternatives and choose between them. The creative mind exceeds this liberty in being able to redefine itself and reality at large, generating whole new sets of alternatives.

The mind which can totally and inanely forget its work and obligations is often also the mind which can, at the proper time, give them the fullest attention.

The reason so many promises are not kept is the same as the reason they are made in the first place.

What liberates the imagination is the sense that work in its theory and practice holds aesthetic possibilities, that jobs can be elegantly conceived and gracefully done. This sense of beauty unlocks feelings of pleasure and love and breaks down the barrier between worker and work and commit to work not merely the "thinking" consciousness but the full resources of mind.

Excellence of mind itself, rightly conceived, is expertise in beauty; creativity is wise love.

All great experience has a guarded entrance and a windowless facade.

We pamper the present like a spoiled child, obeying its superficial demands but ignoring its real needs.