No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.

Grief is the price we pay for love.

Some people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power.

Change — real change — comes from the inside out.

The world belongs to the enthusiast who keeps cool.

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

Healing begins where the wound was made.

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

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

My heart is unlimited in the amount of love, but it is limited in the passion and commitment.

At the end of the day, you are enough exactly as you are.

I was smart enough to go through any door that opened.