Genius is 1 percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration.

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

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

To fight unhappiness one must first expose it.

Just set one day’s work in front of the last day's work. That's the way it comes out.

We must turn to each other and not on each other.

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

Only if we understand can we care. Only if we care will we help.

Risk something or forever sit with your dreams.

Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.

Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves.

Words are the clothing of our thoughts.