Delay is the deadliest form of denial.

Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.

Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can play weird--that's easy. What's hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple complicated is commonplace--making the complicated simple, awesomely simple--that's creativity.

Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.

If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint," then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

Conscience is God's presence in man.

Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.

Chance favors only the mind which is prepared.