A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.

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

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.

It's not your job to be likable. It's your job to be yourself. Someone will like you anyway.

Vulnerability is important. You can’t let your skin get too thick.

Being successful doesn't mean anything in and of itself. It just means that you're successful.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

Art is a spiritual function of man, which aims at freeing him from life's chaos.

I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.

Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature.

The only thing people regret is that they didn’t live boldly enough, that they didn’t invest enough heart, didn’t love enough.

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.