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

The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.

My turn shall also come: I sense the spreading of a wing.

There will always be someone who can't see your worth. Don't let it be you.

You make your life meaningful by applying meaning to it.

I can't give you a recipe for success, but I can give you a recipe for failure: try to please everybody.

Fear has a very concrete power of keeping us from doing and saying the things that are our purpose.

If you want to look good in front of thousands, you have to outwork thousands in front of nobody.

Often when you think you’re at the end of something, you’re at the beginning of something else.

Forgiveness … is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing.

It isn't a sadness, but a joy, that we don't do the same things for the length of our lives.

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