Courage

Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you'll be criticized anyway.

He whose life has a why can bear almost any how.

To stand up straight with your shoulders back is to accept the terrible responsibility of life and with it the possibility of joy.

Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

Find what you love and let it kill you.

It's okay to be a glowstick: Sometimes we have to break before we shine.

I'd rather regret the risk that didn't work out than the chances I didn't take at all.

If you're so afraid of failure, then you will never succeed. You have to fail to succeed. You have to fail to be better.

I love pressure. I eat it for breakfast.

I fight pain, anxiety, and fear every day, and the only method I have found that relieves my illness is to keep creating art.

One of the great things about acting is the edge of not knowing for sure, and taking it off its pedestal as something that's masterful and perfect. You can always fail, so that's a window into being present.

Great acting is like a tightrope walk. There's no net underneath. Those really are the special moments.

I don't consider writing a quiet, closet act.

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.

You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.

If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

Believe in yourself and have faith in what you want to do.

Fear can hold you back from what you could achieve.

I'm just trying to do the best that I can.