The worst enemy to creativity is self doubt.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it.

The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone.

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

All mistakes teach us something, so there are, in reality, no mistakes.

I was smart enough to go through any door that opened.

We are all of us obliged... to nurse a few little follies in ourselves.

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

Walls turned sideways are bridges.

I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.

Change — real change — comes from the inside out.

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