It is easy to opt out and follow the stream down the river and end up stranded without knowing how you got there or how you can reverse the years of swimming with the tide.

If we can stand fast while the waves of criticism crash around us, we can transcend their expectations and the way they underestimate our abilities to thrive.

One of the greatest dangers for us creators is that we are impatiently waiting for inspiration to strike before we begin our work. The reason why this is so dangerous is that inspiration never strikes, it caresses us with its presence the moment we start working.

For you to reach a state of creative enlightenment, you must wage war on yourself, and start working. Only then will inspiration reward you with its presence.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But if that drop were not there, I think the ocean would be less by that missing drop.

Repentance is as much a mark of a Christian, as faith is. A very little sin, as the world calls it, is a very great sin to a true Christian.