""I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.""
- Herman Melville
Courage
"I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts."
- Herman Melville
Adversity
"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."
- Herman Melville
Creativity
"With a frigate’s anchors for my bridle-bitts and fasces of harpoons for spurs, would I could mount that whale and leap the topmost skies, to see whether the fabled heavens with all their countless tents really lie encamped beyond my mortal sight!"
- Herman Melville
Aspirations
"To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme."
- Herman Melville
Ambition
"You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have."
- Maya Angelou
Creativity
"Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless."
- Jamie Paolinetti
Creativity
"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."
- Herman Melville
Creativity
"I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying."
- Oscar Wilde
Creativity
"Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too."
- Isabel Allende
Creativity