The only thing we can do is honestly learn from our falls.

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

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

Risk something or forever sit with your dreams.

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

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

Only love can heal the wounds of the past.

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

The only thing people regret is that they didn’t live boldly enough, that they didn’t invest enough heart, didn’t love enough.

Every noble work is at first impossible.

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.