As resistance works to keep us from becoming who we were born to be, equal and opposite powers are counterpoised against it. These are our allies and angels.

Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here obedient to their laws we lie.

Rule of thumb: The more important a call or action is to our soul's evolution, the Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it.

Don't cheat the world of your contribution. Give it what you've got.

Never forget: This very moment, we can change our lives. There never was a moment, and never will be, when we are without the power to alter our destiny.

The essence of professionalism is the focus upon the work and its demands, while we are doing it, to the exclusion of all else.

The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.

We come into this world with a specific, personal destiny. We have a job to do, a calling to enact, a self to become. We are who we are from the cradle, and we're stuck with it.

A horse must be a bit mad to be a good cavalry mount, and its rider must be completely so.

Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance.

The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.

Faith is like a pockpocket who loans a person his own money on generous terms.

And, for the gods sake, don't waste the whole day working! Make time for a bit of adventure dear. This life is only so long.

Life doesn't get more real than having a newborn at home.

If I am an angel, paint me with black wings.

Cunning and treachery are the offspring of incapacity.

For me to be where I'm at now - you know what I'm saying? - a multimillionaire and to help other people be multimillionaires - I'm so proud.

Remember, you are all alone in the kitchen and no one can see you.

Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.

That leaves Decker and what's his name, Mr. I'm Too Sexy for My Shirt.

Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books, But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.