Whatever you want emotionally, you have to start giving away.

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

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

I restore myself when I'm alone. A career is born in public — talent in privacy.

You know the greatest thing is passion, without it what have you got?

Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.

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

All mistakes teach us something, so there are, in reality, no mistakes.

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.

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

I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.

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