The avant-garde spirit is not just a youthful sentiment — I live my life by it.

Judge nothing, you will be happy. Forgive everything, you will be happier.

Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too.

A person without imagination is like a teabag without hot water.

Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses, and disappointments.

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us.

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

We are all born worthy. Worthy of love, worthy of success.

Many are the wonders of the world, and none so wonderful as man.