The meaning of life is to find your gift. To find your gift is happiness.

You must not try to make love definite. It is the divine accident of life.

What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.

Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.

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

You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

There is nothing stronger than a broken woman who has rebuilt herself.

Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.

The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Resilience — the ability to brush off pain.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.