The meaning of life is to find your gift. To find your gift is happiness.

All mistakes teach us something, so there are, in reality, no mistakes.

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

Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature.

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

Grief is the price we pay for love.

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

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

Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are.

The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world.

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

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.