I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.

The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you're free.

If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.

I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me.

The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.

It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.

There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.