You can’t laugh and be afraid at the same time — of anything.

When someone tells me “no,” it doesn't mean I can't do it, it simply means I can't do it with them.

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.

The greatest reward of righteousness is peace of mind.

It's not your job to be likable. It's your job to be yourself. Someone will like you anyway.

All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster’s autobiography.

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses, and disappointments.

Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

There’s nothing so kingly as kindness, and nothing so royal as truth.

Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too.

A person without imagination is like a teabag without hot water.

There are things that are not sayable. That's why we have art.