What you think about day and night forms your character and personality.

Every noble work is at first impossible.

Exuberance is beauty.

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

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect.

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

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it.

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

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

I was smart enough to go through any door that opened.