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

It isn't just talent. You have to have something else. You have to have a kind of nerve.

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

Love comes… when you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Don’t be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible.

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

It's more difficult to be simple, and it's easier to be more complicated.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

Don't surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn't true anymore.

One shouldn't just hope to be treated well: one must insist on it.