Vulnerability is important. You can’t let your skin get too thick.

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

To have courage for whatever comes in life — everything lies in that.

In quietness the soul expands.

Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

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

Tolerance, like any aspect of peace, is forever a work in progress.

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.

The world belongs to the enthusiast who keeps cool.

Optimism is a happiness magnet.

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

Healing begins where the wound was made.