All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.

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

Take a canvas. Put a mark on it. Put another mark on it.

Optimism is a happiness magnet.

Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are.

"Enough" is a feast.

The only thing people regret is that they didn’t live boldly enough, that they didn’t invest enough heart, didn’t love enough.

The best advice I ever got when I was starting out: Never give up. And I never did.

Some people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power.

In quietness the soul expands.

It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.

A lot of good things don't get made because of too much thinking.