i believe the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

Courage allows the successful woman to fail-and learn powerful lessons-from the failure-so that in the end,she didn't fail at all.

You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring still.

We, unaccustomed to courage
exiles from delight
live coiled in shells of loneliness
until love leaves its high holy temple
and comes into our sight
to liberate us into life.

Love arrives
and in its train come ecstasies
old memories of pleasure
ancient histories of pain.
Yet if we are bold,
love strikes away the chains of fear
from our souls.

We are weaned from our timidity
In the flush of love's light
we dare be brave
And suddenly we see
that love costs all we are
and will ever be.
Yet it is only love
which sets us free.