Playing for money, or adopting the attitude of one who plays for money, lowers the fever.

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.

The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

In an age of constant live connections, the central question of self-examination is drifting from ‘Who are you?’ towards ‘What are you doing?

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

So you’ve made a friend. How sad for them.

A great rock is not disturbed by the wind; the mind of a wise man is not disturbed by either honor or abuse.

When you rape, beat, maim, mutilate, burn, bury, and terrorize women, you destroy the essential life energy on the planet.

Women's weapon, water-drops.

Make sure you have the courage to stay true to your convictions and not let the market affect your emotions.

No man who owns his own house and lot can be a Communist. He has too much to do.