One day in retrospect the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

Change — real change — comes from the inside out.

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature.

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

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

In all things it is better to hope than to despair.

Many are the wonders of the world, and none so wonderful as man.

The transformation of the heart is a wondrous thing, no matter how you land there.

I have stood on a mountain of no's for one yes.

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

Dismiss whatever insults your own soul.