If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.

Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake.

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.

There will always be someone who can't see your worth. Don't let it be you.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play.

Love comes… when you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Within you there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time.

You can't learn style. Style, I think, is in your DNA.

Love is really... a recognition of another person’s integrity and truth.