To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

If you wake up and the day feels broken, just lean into the crack.

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.

The truth is the light and light is the truth.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

One shouldn't just hope to be treated well: one must insist on it.

Don't allow your rituals to become ruts.

I learned that you have to push away the demand of people's expectations by believing in your instincts.

I found my place when I stopped looking for it.

Resilience — the ability to brush off pain.

My turn shall also come: I sense the spreading of a wing.