Trust your gut. Forgive yourself. Be grateful.

Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

Love is really... a recognition of another person’s integrity and truth.

If you feel you are in a black hole, don't give up. There's a way out.

You know the greatest thing is passion, without it what have you got?

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

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

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

The present is the only time in which any duty can be done or any grace received.

Exuberance is beauty.

The struggle, like life itself, should be joyful.

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