The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.

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

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it.

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

Optimism is a happiness magnet.

Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.

The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone.

My life is full of mistakes. They’re like pebbles that make a good road.

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

In quietness the soul expands.

Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

There is nothing stronger than a broken woman who has rebuilt herself.