Of any activity you do, ask yourself: If I were the last person on earth, would I still do 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.

Why should anyone else have it easy. Spoken like a true New Yorker.

He swift don't win the race. It goes to the worthy, who can divide the word of truth.

There are two categories of women. Those who are women and those who are men's wives.

Those who remember the past tend to get the story really screwed up.

I think the story is the most ancient form of human entertainment.

Reason and happiness are like other flowers; they wither when plucked.

I say a lot of things I shouldn't say.

If the heart of a man is depressed with cares, The mist is dispell'd when a woman appears; Like the notes of a fiddle, she sweetly, sweetly Raises the spirits, and charms our ears.

Podcasting might be thought of as a form of academic gift

When you can use dirty words in every situation with everyone, that's a real big liberation.