Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves.

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

Find the thing you do well and do it again and again for the rest of your life.

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.

Living with regrets is like driving a car that only moves in reverse.

Change — real change — comes from the inside out.

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

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

Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses, and disappointments.

Compassion is one of the purest springs of love.

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