Life is a collection of moments. Mindfulness is beautification of the moments.

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

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

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

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

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

You know the greatest thing is passion, without it what have you got?

Walls turned sideways are bridges.

Grief is the price we pay for love.

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

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

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