Be too dumb to quit and too stubborn to back off.

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.

You can’t possibly be afraid of trees.

Well I'd certainly hate to interrupt your pleasant night stroll with my sudden death.

Remember you’re all representing your country, and you ought to behave as the Empire does.’ ‘So we can kill and loot at will, steal their goods and claim the planet as our own?’ Suruk said.

Hypocrisy is the resin that holds the plywood of society together.

The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English when I quit being a newspaper editor and went back to college.

It takes time for people to get to know a cause or an organization.

Try everything that can be done.... Learn your own possibilities.

Any fear of aging, I think, is simply vanity.

It's a deft trick to turn American exceptionalism into an exceptional political tactic.

When soulmates come and go, you're never alone, even when you're standing just you and your shoes, because you carry them with you.