Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.

Don't allow your rituals to become ruts.

It isn't just talent. You have to have something else. You have to have a kind of nerve.

Don’t be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible.

I do not think it worth while to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it.

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Often when you think you’re at the end of something, you’re at the beginning of something else.

Forgiveness … is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing.

You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.