It's not the writing part that's hard. What's hard is sitting down to write.

Rule of thumb: The more important a call or action is to our soul's evolution, the Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it.

The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.

Nothing is as empowering as real-world validation, even if it's for failure.

The professional learns to recognize envy-driven criticism and to take it for what it is: the supreme compliment. The critic hates most that which he would have done himself if he had had the guts.

To yield to Resistance deforms our spirit. It stunts us and makes us less than we are and were born to be.

...she (the artist, the writer) doesn't wait for inspiration, she acts in the anticipation of its apparition.

The professional has learned that success, like happiness, comes as a by-product of work. The professional concentrates on the work and allows rewards to come or not come, whatever they like.

We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause.

The sign of the amateur is overglorification of and preoccupation with the mystery. The professional shuts up. She doesn't talk about it. She does her work.

The awakening an artist must be ruthless, not only with herself but with others.

'War on Everyone, ' I think... the script was hilarious to me, but it's very dark, dark humor. It's super dark.

It was bad enough when I thought your ghost was haunting me; I don't think I could handle the real thing.

When a man is in love very little is enough to throw him into despair and as little to enhance his joy to the utmost.

Never underestimate the incompetence of government.

The sun teaches to all things that grow their longing for the light. But it is night that raises them to the stars.

These managers all know their onions and cut their cloth accordingly.

Intuitive listening requires us to still our minds until the beauty of things older than our minds can find us.

Absence becomes the greatest Presence.

If God built me a ladder to heaven, I would climb it and elbow drop the world

Once you know where the roller coaster is going, are you in for the ride?