As one goes through life, one learns that if you don’t paddle your own canoe, you don’t move.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention… To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

You must not try to make love definite. It is the divine accident of life.

Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake.

If you look for perfection, you will never be satisfied.

The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

If it is true for you, it is true for someone else, and you are no longer alone.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

Attention is a moral act: It creates, brings aspects of things into being.