We are all of us obliged... to nurse a few little follies in ourselves.

Grief is the price we pay for love.

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

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

There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met.

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

It is not enough to know your craft — you have to have feeling.

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

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

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

The struggle, like life itself, should be joyful.

The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone.