There is no higher qualification than genuine inspiration.

You could wait for the world to invite you to the banquet and the ball. Or you could just show up in your red dress and your headdress ready to boogie.

Doing work you love is the dizzying path of saying yes to yourself and yes to a brilliant, hidden self you do not yet know.

If everyone is speaking caterpillar, don’t be afraid to speak butterfly. When it’s time to awaken, nothing else will suit you.

Your talents are worth your devotion. Stop saying you don't have time or it might not make money. Your talents are another form of oxygen you need to breathe in this lifetime.

WIth both trepidation and relief, I abandoned pragmatism in favor of magnetism.

You can't force yourself to say "yes" to a bigger life. You will do it in your way. You will do it when smallness hurts too much.

You belong in the life of your dreams. And you don't belong anywhere else.

Just start dancing and the band will find you.

You are meant to succeed in the work you love. Your desire will take you all the way.

It doesn't matter how you begin. Just jump in. Get moving.

Eating your own heart simply to keep the strangers from tasting: a suicide.

It’s not the circumstances that we should feel threatened by, it’s the fear of the circumstances that poses the real threat.

Make it a habit to ask for business referrals. There's nothing pushy about it. People won't give you referrals unless you deserve them.

The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.

I'm under strict instructions to write a happy ending. Rule number ninety-seven: You're not allowed to make a dragon cry.""Right, " Said Sophie, starting the engine. "Tears might quench their fire.

Jealous is an ugly thing.

Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.

Don't say I gotta do anything in life. There is nothing you gotta do. But I want to.

It is so great to go to a casting director and have them wanting to talk about the show that you are in. It's such a great icebreaker. It just makes the environment so much more relaxed.

The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.