“See every problem as an opportunity to exercise creative energy.”

All broken relationships can be traced back to broken agreements.

Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what’s urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.

What you do has far greater impact than what you say.

It’s better to be humbled by the word than by the force of circumstances.

The problems in life come when we’re sowing one thing and expecting to reap something entirely different.

We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Unless you’re continually improving your skills, you’re quickly becoming irrelevant.

It takes humility to seek feedback. It takes wisdom to understand it, analyze it and appropriately act on it.

Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.

While we cannot always choose what happens to us, we can choose our responses.

Link yourself to your potential, not to your past.

The greatest risk is the risk of riskless living.

You can’t change the fruit without changing the root.

Don’t get buried in the thick of thin things.

Before you wonder “Am I doing things right?” wonder “Am I doing the right things?”

Creative people have to be fed from the divine source. I have to get fed. I had to get filled up in order to pour out.

I do much of my creative thinking while golfing. If people know you’re working at home they think nothing of walking in for a cup of coffee, but wouldn’t dream of interrupting on the golf course.

I like to make something beautiful when I run … it’s style. It’s doing something better than anyone else. It’s being creative.

Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I run. I like to make people stop and say, ‘I’ve never seen anyone run like that before.’ It’s more than just a race, it’s a style. It’s doing something better than anyone else. It’s being creative.

I like to feel the butterflies in the stomach, I like to go home and have a restless night and wonder how I’m going to be able to accomplish this feat, get jittery. That hunger and those butterflies in the stomach are very essential for all creative people.

The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.

It’s hard to juggle being a businessperson with being a creative person. You have to organize yourself – PR needs me for PR, and the licensing division needs me for licensing, the bridal people need me for bridal.

I am sure the next step will be the electronic image, and I hope I shall live to see it. I trust that the creative eye will continue to function, whatever technological innovations may develop.