If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it.

Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake.

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect.

The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.

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

Endure, and keep yourselves for days of happiness.

The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.

If you need something from somebody, always give that person a way to hand it to you.

The truth is the light and light is the truth.

Tolerance, like any aspect of peace, is forever a work in progress.

There is nothing stronger than a broken woman who has rebuilt herself.