It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

It isn't just talent. You have to have something else. You have to have a kind of nerve.

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

The chief prevention against getting old is to remain astonished.

Resilience — the ability to brush off pain.

Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.

In all our searching, the only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention… To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

Attention is a moral act: It creates, brings aspects of things into being.

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its troubles, but it empties it of its strength.

Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.