It's one thing to lie to ourselves. It's another thing to believe it.

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.

Attitude determines how the “inner battle” is won.

Neither do men light a candle and put it under a bushel but on a candlestick and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.

We didn't really have to take everything so seriously, did we?

Aristotle is the last Greek philosopher who faces the world cheerfully; after him, all have, in one form or another, a philosophy of retreat.

Digital files cannot be made uncopyable, any more than water can be made not wet.

If you wanted to rip my clothes off, you should have asked." (Jace Wayland)

The roles for women in theatre are much better than they are in film.

The fellow who tends the greenhouse gardens? Trust me, Lady, you'd let him stake your tomatoes.

Good can still exist when bad things happen, just as evil persists when good things happen.” - Carter to Georgina

What, my dear Lady Disdain! are you yet living? Beatrice: Is it possible disdain should die while she hath such meet food to feed it as Signior Benedick?