If you're are paralyzed with fear it's a good sign. It shows you what you have to do.

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.

It was as if I had been following a narrow trail, and had suddenly realized that at any time I could leave it and strike out cross-country.

Hope was always hard to find in the darkness.

Mythology is to relate found truth to the living of a life.

All my life, the mistakes I've made have been honorable ones.

In a way, Calvin Coolidge is better than Reagan. His tax rates were lower, and he cut budgets.

As a cabin boy on a Norwegian sailing ship I earned five kronen a week in addition to my keep.

I vowed to our countrymen that I would do everything I could to protect the American people... That's why I said to Afghanistan: If you harbor a terrorist, you're just as guilty as the terrorist.

Oh yes, right—right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?

It's a great question about what is our mind. Undoubtedly a creation of our brain.

So be it. God created profoundly fallible creatures on this earth, and human history is mostly the story of error and accident.