Accepting your flaws only makes you a winner.
Fear does not prevent death. It prevents life.
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
The knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks means that you are, ever after, secure in your ability to survive. You will never truly know yourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both have been tested by adversity. Such knowledge is a true gift, for all that it is painfully won, and it has been worth more than any qualification I ever earned.
Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.