I sit before flowers hoping they will train me in the art of opening up I stand on mountain tops believing that avalanches will teach me to let go I know nothing but I am here to learn.

I accept that today may be imperfect... I accept that I may be as well. What I don't accept is that imperfection should be the crutch I use to excuse myself from participating in joy.

The tiniest dream that you make happen is worth more than the biggest dream that you never attempt.

I will love myself despite the ease with which I lean toward the opposite.

Look at an avalanche, and see that we are at our most powerful when we let go. Look at a flower, and see that we are at our most beautiful when we open up.

If your heart is broken, make art with the pieces.

We come from the mentality, that rarely sees the horror in symmetry or the beauty in non-conformity

Our lives will only ever always continue to be a balancing act that has less to do with pain and more to do with beauty.

I have loved this life. I smile because I have tiny dreams that play hopscotch at the corners of my mouth. And every time I breathe they float, every time I laugh, they fly kites.

If you can't see anything beautiful about yourself, get a better mirror.

A question like “do you love me?” was an itch our doctors told us not to scratch.

I wrote a novel because I had a yen to do it. I believe this is sufficient reason to set out to tell a story.

The more you use your brain, the more brain you will have to use. "—George A. Dorsey, anthropologist

Actors know what actors are insecure about - and they're all insecure.

Stop attaching so much weight to being right. In the grand scheme of things, being right is insignificant compared with being happy.

Baby smiled, mother wailed, Earthward while the sweetling sailed; Mother smiled, baby wailed, When to earth came Viola.

I don’t like the gringos at all. They are very boring and all have faces like unbaked rolls.

We cannot anticipate the moral circumstances under which we will live. And therefore [I refuse] to say that I will not live in a moral circumstance that requires violence.

In education the appetite does indeed grow with eating. I have never known anyone to abandon study because they knew too much.

When you wake up in the morning, smile - and get it over with.

Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.