There is only one proof of ability — action.

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

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

I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.

Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.

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

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others.

When you come out of the storm you won’t be the same person who walked in.

The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.

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

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

Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.