Every sun casts a shadow, and genius's shadow is Resistance.

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.

Life is not about what happened yesterday nor what will happen tomorrow, it's about this particular moment!

Many today view love and doctrine as enemies, or at best as rivals.

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

The worst thing you can do to a kid is tell them that their dreams are invalid.

The fabric of society is woven together by the needle of suppression and denial.

Expectations are the most perilous form of dream, and when dreams do realise themselves it is in the waking world: the difference is subtly but often painfully felt.

The art is just really mysterious. If I understood it more, maybe I would write more.

The fact that drilling won't solve every problem is no excuse to do nothing at all.

I sit back on my bed cross-legged and find myself rubbing the smooth iridescent surface of the pearl back and forth against my lips. For some reason, it’s soothing. A cool kiss

I've never been one to shortchange the importance of actors.