Start before you’re ready. Good things happen when we start before we’re ready.

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.

This work of making trade righteous, of Christianizing trade, looks like the very hardest the Gospel has ever had to take in hand—in England at any rate.

I began stealing a lot of ideas from other directors I had worked with.

At one level you're condemned to the voice you have. But within those confines, you have a certain amount of freedom to range among your possible voices.

When people call something "original," 9 out of 10 times they just don't know the references or original sources involved.

You've never gone too far that God can't redeem you, restore you, forgive you, and give you a second chance.

If you cannot live without justification, you cannot live; period. And the path towards it is the path of language.

Government has been a fossil: it should be a plant.

That's what she [Hillary Clinton] is done with everything all her life. She just makes something good happen, and that's what you need.

I was working with mud and photographs and thread, eyelashes, carrots and acetone... I was throwing radios off buildings and... remember floating styrofoam commas down the Milwaukee River.

If you have something to say about somebody, look the person in the eye and say it.