Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence.

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

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

In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

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

If you feel you are in a black hole, don't give up. There's a way out.

You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

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

Risk something or forever sit with your dreams.

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

Take a canvas. Put a mark on it. Put another mark on it.