Above all, don't fear difficult moments. The best comes from them.

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others.

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

Some people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power.

Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.

Grief is the price we pay for love.

There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

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

Compassion is one of the purest springs of love.

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

Only one mountain can know the core of another mountain.

We are all afraid to say too much, to feel too deeply, to let people know what they mean to us.