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

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.

Vulnerability is important. You can’t let your skin get too thick.

The only thing we can do is honestly learn from our falls.

It's not your job to be likable. It's your job to be yourself. Someone will like you anyway.

When someone tells me “no,” it doesn't mean I can't do it, it simply means I can't do it with them.

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

I never practice, I always play.

It is so easy to give, so exquisitely rewarding.

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

The greatest reward of righteousness is peace of mind.

The best advice I ever got when I was starting out: Never give up. And I never did.