Each of us has an inner dream that we can unfold if we will just have the courage to admit what it is, and the faith to trust our own admission. The admitting is often very difficult.

By listening to the creator within, we are led to our right path.

We are not accustomed to thinking that God's will for us and our own inner dreams can coincide.

Growth is an erratic forward movement: two steps forward, one step back. Remember that and be very gentle with yourself.

At root, a pearl is a 'disturbance' a beauty caused by something that isn't supposed to be there, about which something needs to be done. It is the interruption of equilibrium that creates beauty. Beauty is a response to provocation, to intrusion. ... The pearl's beauty is made as a result of insult.

Art is one of the few careers without a mandatory retirement age.

Wherever you are is always the right place. There is never a need to fix anything, to hitch up the bootstraps of the soul and start at some higher place. Start right where you are.