Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves.

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

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

I never practice, I always play.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

Exuberance is beauty.

Find the thing you do well and do it again and again for the rest of your life.

To have courage for whatever comes in life — everything lies in that.

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.

Only one mountain can know the core of another mountain.

"Enough" is a feast.