In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.

Write your own book instead of reading someone else’s book about success.

If you hear a voice within you say, ‘You cannot paint’, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.

Start by doing what is necessary, then do what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

I want to look back on my career and be proud of the work, and be proud that I tried everything.

I’ve learned that making a ‘living’ is not the same thing as ‘making a life’.

You have to be strong and calm to overcome difficult moments.

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

Give people high fives just for getting out of bed. Being a person is hard sometimes.

If flowers can teach themselves how to bloom after winter passes, so can you.

You only lose what you cling to.

If you don’t like where you are now, move. You are not a tree.

Do you know who you are? Don’t ask. Act. Action will delineate and define you.

A bad attitude is like a flat tire. You can’t get far until you change it.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

Life is 10% what you experience and 90% how you respond to it.

You really have to look inside yourself and find your own inner strength, and say: I’m proud of what I am and who I am.

If you don’t like the road you’re walking, pave another one.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.