Reading is alive and well and will get more alive and more well. Reading on tablets (or whatever the next tech device will be) is the future - and the future is now.

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.

My suitcase must absolutely contain my iPod.

Purpose should determine approach. At the end of the day, it's what we do, not what we purposed to do, that defines our lives and reputations.

You can HAVE, DO or BE, anything you want! It's a choice and it's YOUR CHOICE.

For now, feeling as though my own brain were unhinged or as if the shock had come which must end in its undoing, I turn to my diary for repose. The habit of entering accurately must help sooth me.

We'll do it right. You'll be proud of our country again.

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

She surveyed the carnage behind him. "Did you have fun?" He showed her his teeth. "Yes.

I'm not a traditional sonero, at least not in the way they want me to be, I'm an interpreter, and I reach people in a different level.

Fighting for social justice is not about leaving the mainstream. It is about being right in the middle of it.

I probably have not killed anyone in America because I write, I've maintained good controls over myself by writing.