Many pedestrians have been maimed or killed at the intersection of Resistance and Commerce.

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.

You will only have influence and power in the field of your gifts and talents

I may not hate al of the people all the time, but I hate all of them some of the time, and I hate some of them all of the time.

Maybe Harry Potter is real and you're not.

Sometimes your eyes are not the only place the tears fall from.

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.

I gave them hope, and so turned away their eyes from death

I hope people come to the shows because they feel like there's something there that I can't necessarily articulate, but it's real and it's fun.

It is dangerous to be an American Negro male. America has never wanted its Negroes to be men, and does not, generally, treat them as men. It treats them as mascots, pets, or things.

At a certain point memory becomes a beach strewn with landmines, all life’s many losses buried in those sands.