“Doing what you were born to do...That's the way to be happy.”

“Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: You don’t give up.”

“Love is that micro-moment of warmth and connection that you share with another living being.”

“Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future.”

“Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”

“When the deepest part of you becomes engaged in what you are doing, when your activities and actions become gratifying and purposeful, when what you do serves both yourself and others, when you do not tire within but seek the sweet satisfaction of your life and your work, you are doing what you were meant to be doing.”

“The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them.”

“Character—the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life—is the source from which self-respect springs.”

“To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.”

“I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.”

“No matter where you are on your journey, that’s exactly where you need to be. The next road is always ahead.”

“We spend most of our lives cutting down our ambitions because the world has told us to think small. Dreams express what your soul is telling you, so as crazy as your dream might seem—even to you—I don’t care: You have to let that out.”

“As long as we dare to dream and don't get in the way of ourselves, anything is possible--there's truly no end to where our dreams can take us.”

“You have to speak your dream out loud.”

“It's only when you make the process your goal that the big dream can follow.”

“It’s not about how to achieve your dreams. It’s about how to lead your life. If you lead your life the right way, the karma will take care of itself. The dreams will come to you.”

“Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. [...] The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.”

“The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work; then the faith and belief that it can work; then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one doubt or disbelief.”

“The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.”

“For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. [...] A lot of people never get past this phase; they quit. [...] If you are just starting out or are still in this phase, you gotta know that it’s normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. [...] It’s only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions.”