"Creativity is a force moving through us, and only through practice do we learn how to cooperate with it. The 'process' is like a muscle. It needs to be exercised in order to function effortlessly."

“Peacekeeping is not a job for soldiers, but only soldiers can do it.”

“You can still be strong and be feminine.”

Source : "Preview: Shannon Tweed on Gene Simmons: Family Jewels". Interview with Joseph Hudak, www.tvguide.com. March 18, 2008.

“Part of being an artist is that you are always concerned you don't have what it takes. It keeps us honest.”

“Court... a place where they dispense with justice.”

“the African leopard is an audacious animal, although it is ungrateful of me to say a word against him, after the way he has let me off personally ... taken as a whole, he is the most lovely animal I have ever seen; only seeing him, in the one way you can gain a full idea of his beauty, namely in his native forest, is not an unmixed joy to a person, like myself, of a nervous disposition.”

Source : Mary Kingsley (2010). “Travels in West Africa, Congo Français, Corisco and Cameroons”, p.543, Cambridge University Press

“Music isn’t just heard, it is felt.”

“It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself.”

Source : Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.405, Delphi Classics

“More than anything else, what differentiates people who live up to their potential from those who don't is a willingness to look at themselves and others objectively”

Source : Ray Dalio (2017). “Principles: Life and Work”, p.176, Simon and Schuster