Resistance by definition is self-sabotage.

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.

Memories demand attention, and these memories will have teeth.

Talking is nothing. Doing is something.

Characters carrying the playwright's disapproval is a un-Shakespearian burden.

Can you really forgive if you can't forget?

That of all people, it should be him; that took her aback. That the heart should settle on somebody like him; that surprised her. But she was so certain about it, so certain.

A garlic caress is stimulating. A garlic excess soporific.

My block was due to two overlapping factors: laziness and lack of discipline.

From the poorest of countries to the richest of nations, education is the key to moving forward in any society.

I always knew I'd be a millionaire by age thirty-two. In fact, I am going to be the richest black woman in America.

So it's always helped me to have a foundation, an ideal to strive for and goals. It's hard for me to be disciplined and plan things.