No matter how great a writer, artist, or entrepreneur, he is a mortal, he is fallible. He is not proof against Resistance. He will drop the ball; he will crash. That’s why they call it rewriting.

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.

If you want to do something better, do it with profound love.

After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser.

Summer flings always seemed amazing in movies, though that might be because the leading man did not ever call his romantic interest "dude.

And sometimes you do everything right and something bad just happens. It's as simple, and as scary, as that.

If "ifs" and "ands" were pots and pans, there'd be no work for tinkers' hands

Each one of us is not a divine afterthought.

It is in that inner peace and stillness that things begin to happen, and it was in that peace and stillness that I began to hear God's voice.

If you are too busy in your church activities to take care of your family, then perhaps we had better find something else for you to do.

I'm looking forward to a future where there are roles of greater vulnerability and humor involved.

If the family goes, so goes our civilization.