There will always be someone who can't see your worth. Don't let it be you.

Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature.

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

There are things that are not sayable. That's why we have art.

You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.

Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.

What counts is not the things that happen, but what we do with them.

Love is a tenacious adventure.

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

Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.

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

Vulnerability is important. You can’t let your skin get too thick.