Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

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

The world belongs to the enthusiast who keeps cool.

I believe that the privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others.

Exuberance is beauty.

Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.

There are things that are not sayable. That's why we have art.

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

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

Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.