Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake.

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

Open to whatever you experience without fighting. Let it be present just as it is. Let go of the battle.

If you need something from somebody, always give that person a way to hand it to you.

To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.

The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have.

You will never get any more out of life than you expect.

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.

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

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention… To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.