Aging is an extraordinary process whereby you become the person that you always should have been.

The struggle, like life itself, should be joyful.

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

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

The first time you do something only happens once.

Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

The only thing people regret is that they didn’t live boldly enough, that they didn’t invest enough heart, didn’t love enough.

There’s nothing so kingly as kindness, and nothing so royal as truth.

Travel is the traveler. What we see isn't what we see but what we are.

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.

Change — real change — comes from the inside out.

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