1. "Everybody is ORIGINAL. If they tell the truth and speak from their true self, not the self they think they should be. So remember these two things: you are TALENTED and you are ORIGINAL. Be sure of that."
2. “Everybody is talented, original, and has something important to say.”
3. "I learned... that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic, striving, but it comes to us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness."
4. “It is only by expressing all that is inside that purer and purer streams come.”
5. “Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force….When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life…. When we listen to people there is an alternating current, and this recharges us so that we never get tired of each other...and it is this little creative fountain inside us that begins to spring and cast up new thoughts and unexpected laughter and wisdom.… Well, it is when people really listen to us, with quiet fascinated attention, that the little fountain begins to work again, to accelerate in the most surprising way."
6. “So you see the imagination needs moodling, - long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering.”
