Rule of thumb: The more important a call or action is to our soul's evolution, the Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it.

The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.

Nothing is as empowering as real-world validation, even if it's for failure.

The professional learns to recognize envy-driven criticism and to take it for what it is: the supreme compliment. The critic hates most that which he would have done himself if he had had the guts.

To yield to Resistance deforms our spirit. It stunts us and makes us less than we are and were born to be.

...she (the artist, the writer) doesn't wait for inspiration, she acts in the anticipation of its apparition.

The professional has learned that success, like happiness, comes as a by-product of work. The professional concentrates on the work and allows rewards to come or not come, whatever they like.

We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause.

The sign of the amateur is overglorification of and preoccupation with the mystery. The professional shuts up. She doesn't talk about it. She does her work.

The awakening an artist must be ruthless, not only with herself but with others.

Next morning I went over to Paul’s for coffee and told him I had finished. “Good for you, ” he said without looking up. “Start the next one today.

Christianity contains within itself a germ hostile to the Church (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)

A person's practical experience can attribute him or her to teach his or her fellow learners the value of real life responsibilities and its consequences.

Raise your children with right values and education. You may end up living frugal but you will die rich else you will live rich but die poor.

I’ve always seen you, angel. From the moment you found me, I’ve seen nothing but you.

He's got everything. He' not a great player yet because he hasn't won any major championships, but it's a matter of time. He's an outstanding talent. I didn't realize how tall he is.

Paul Ryan looks like the car rental salesman who bullies you into getting full coverage.

Your entire universe is in your mind and nowhere else. To expand the universe, expand your mind.

We believe that the Honorable Elijah Mohammed is the apostle of Allah, God, but I'm only a helper and a minister of his.

For every step in spiritual perception, three steps are to be taken in moral development.

Sometimes family was the cruelest form of love there was, for no one could hurt you more than the people who created you.