Our greatest battle is to become ourselves, in the face of adversity.

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.

I cannot say that the attitude of the United Nations always is for the Israeli attitude. Israel, I think, has been under severe attacks by members of the United Nations many times.

When friends are in trouble, America Helps.

It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance and sweeps away all obstacles.

The skill-providers want to have more impact and solve problems; the problem people want new tools to get their problems solved.

Poetry is talking on tiptoe.

Besides hot pockets keeps introducing new products every 10 minutes so I always have new stuff on the topic.

Eternity bids thee to forget.

That Paris exists and anyone could choose to live anywhere else in the world will always be a mystery to me.

The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.

We must renew democracy itself. We have to fight cynicism and inertia and restore faith in the advancement of our country.