Pay attention to what you pay attention to.

Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.

I believe that the privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

I never practice, I always play.

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.

What counts is not the things that happen, but what we do with them.

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

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