Your greatest disappointment will often lead you to your greatest appointment.

Encouragement is like water to the soul, it makes everything grow.

Greatness comes from the inside and once you believe you have it, it's yours to share with the world.

‪Fear should stop you for a moment so you can determine whether you're willing to sacrifice something to get you want.

We often don't realize the passing of years until we see them in a child.

Be so focused on believing that you can that it doesn't matter if anyone says you can't.

Behind every dreamer stands an army full of true believers.

If you can remember why you started, then you will know why you must continue.

You may bend, but you will not be broken.

People will have their opinions of you, but you must be able to distinguish theirs from yours.

What you feel, and what is real – all just a matter of perspective.

Have pity on them all, for it is we who are the real monsters.

The only satisfactory thing about death is that our knowledge about it is unsatisfactory.

I am certainly not perfect. I don't think you should try to be perfect for anyone. When you come to terms with that, then you're OK.

Everything about women is in perpetual crisis.

Coming, going, the waterbirds, don't leave a trace, don't follow a path.

I'm an old-school, embarrassing Joni Mitchell fan. Her music made a hook in my soul and hasn't let go for all these years. I even sing her songs as lullabies to my kids.

Never tripping off the past, I would rather never mind 'em/'Cause only fools trip over something that be behind 'em

Photography is only intuition, a perpetual interrogation - everything except a stage set.

If the guidebook used to be critical, today it seems largely a celebratory adjunct to the publicity operations of hotels, resorts, and even countries.

If you're a fiction writer, though, I can tell you how to let people talk through you. Listen. Just be quiet, and listen. Let the character talk. Don't censor, don't control. Listen, and write.