Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

If you follow the natural intentions, you get the most success out of life.

Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature.

Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

At the end of the day, you are enough exactly as you are.

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

Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.

Risk something or forever sit with your dreams.

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

Love is really... a recognition of another person’s integrity and truth.

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others.

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