Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

The knowing, I told myself, is only a vapor of the mind, and yet it can wreck havok with one's sanity.

—Diane Ackerman

The best way to divulge a secret is to tell someone not to say anything about it.

—Diane Ackerman

Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

—Diane Ackerman

Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

—Diane Ackerman

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

—David Shore

At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

—David McCullough

You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

—Bob Ross

It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

—Bette Davis

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

—Bertrand Russell