It is one thing to study war and another to live the warrior's life.

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.

The greatest evil in our country today is...ignorance...We need to be taught to study rather than to believe.

What was Dr. Mera's motive for murder? I don't need to tell that to a writer of detective novels such as yourself. You know well enough yourself that even without a motive, a murderer lives to kill.

Are you saying that it hurts to look at me?' 'I'm saying you're the first sunlight I've glimpsed in a long time, ' he said.

I have come here only to share the voices and dreams of our children - because they are all our children.

Peace will be realized only by forging bonds of trust between people at the deepest level, in the depths of their very lives.

Come and relax now, put your troubles down. No need to bear the weight of your worries, just let them all fall away.

And then he smiles, and in all the places around the globe where it's night, day breaks.

I was just reading about the new Lindsay Lohan diet, which is all liquid. 80 proof.

There is nothing that anyone can say to prepare you for childbirth. Each woman's experience is so different; you never know how it will be for you!

Coffee - the favorite drink of the civilized world.