Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.

Compassion is one of the purest springs of love.

Love is really... a recognition of another person’s integrity and truth.

Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

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

Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.

It’s better to look ahead and prepare, than to look back and regret.

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

Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are.

Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.