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

Dismiss whatever insults your own soul.

I restore myself when I'm alone. A career is born in public — talent in privacy.

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

Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.

Take a canvas. Put a mark on it. Put another mark on it.

If you feel you are in a black hole, don't give up. There's a way out.

The first time you do something only happens once.

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

Every noble work is at first impossible.

Vulnerability is like a connector... it connects you to the rest of the world.

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