Seeking support from friends and and family is like having people gathered around at your deathbed. It's nice, but when the ship sails, all they can do is stand on the dock waving goodbye.

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.

Sometimes I think my whole life has been about holding on to you.

I tell ya! The road to success is an endless battle for you and me.

Tess, will you marry me?" Toby laughed.

The amazing thing now is that most of those so-called critics who were telling me to find my own voice seem to have lost theirs.

I organize the opposition between colors, lines and curves. I set curves against straight lines, patches of color against plastic forms, pure colors against subtly nuanced shades of gray.

Nine to Five is actually one of my favorite movies. I watched it a thousand times when I was a child, literally a thousand times.

We prove, we do not explain, our birth.

A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.

I'm just always making things that are personal but hopefully also inspiring, and share not just my story, but other people's stories.

I believe in fate, I believe in hard work, and I feel like if I just keep marching, the path will kind of appear before me.