The older I get, the more I want to be authentically myself.

Forgiveness … is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing.

Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.

I found my place when I stopped looking for it.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

I can't give you a recipe for success, but I can give you a recipe for failure: try to please everybody.

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.

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

You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

Don’t be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible.

You make your life meaningful by applying meaning to it.