Courage is inseparable from love and leads to what may arguably be the noblest of all warrior virtues: selflessness.

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.

Going to the gym at this odd hour didn't 'work out' for me.

When are you ever settled enough to have kids?

Knowing what is right is not the same as doing what is right.

There are visible and invisible dictators. The power structure of world football is monarchical. It's the most secret kingdom in the world.

There is no way to find the best design except to try out as many designs as possible and discard the failures.

The secret of success is changing the way you think.

It was headquartered in Michigan City, a long way off. I never saw Ku Klux Klan march.

Our outworn economic system dooms millions to frustration.

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.

The only proper suit-and-tie job I've had in my life was the two years in the late 1980s when I ran a small corporate publishing company. I even had a Ford Sierra!