Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber.

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

Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.

It is not enough to know your craft — you have to have feeling.

Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it.

Walls turned sideways are bridges.

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

Grief is the price we pay for love.

Compassion is one of the purest springs of love.

I learned that you have to push away the demand of people's expectations by believing in your instincts.

It’s better to look ahead and prepare, than to look back and regret.

The transformation of the heart is a wondrous thing, no matter how you land there.