There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

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

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

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.

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

Aging is an extraordinary process whereby you become the person that you always should have been.

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

My heart is unlimited in the amount of love, but it is limited in the passion and commitment.

Once you realize that you can do something, it would be difficult to live with yourself if you didn’t do it.

The present is the only time in which any duty can be done or any grace received.

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

The only thing people regret is that they didn’t live boldly enough, that they didn’t invest enough heart, didn’t love enough.