practice forgiving yourself for mistakes so that you can make more progress in the future rather than repeating the past. Just practice.

What is change? Change is the way things really are.

You invoke peace by taking an active role in creating peaceful solutions rather than supporting violent ones.

There is nothing that will happen to you in your life, however calamitous it might seem, that has not happened to someone else.

Maintain a position of skepticism, relative to yourself and your own powers.

Think of art as a verb, not as a noun. Art is something you do, not something you make. Making art is the process of learning to pay attention.

What does it mean to grow up? It means you have to be willing to give up the stories you used to tell yourself about who you are and what your life is about. It means you have to be willing to take a look at the world as it is and to begin to ask yourself what you want to do with it.

Can you learn to see failure as a blessing? The purpose of life is to learn.

The body is a remarkable miracle worker, and yet also like a bird, fragile and temporary.