The Muse honors the working stiff.

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.

We men are fascinated by the things we don't really understand. It gives us something to think and talk about: like females, they drive us nuts.

The key to successful leadership is influence, not authority.

Develop the muscles for hard work and never be an early quitter.

To be complex does not mean to be fragmented. This is the paradox and the genius of our Canadian civilization.

Pessimism is rife in Israel.

Most things remain undone. Glorious future!

I think the most challenging thing for me in my life and in the Bible is that we worship Jesus as the Prince of Peace.

I have been attacked by media critics and just critics of my own for years. And that, unfortunately, is part of the job in 2016 America. I was used to that. And I've developed a thick skin.

My best dreams and worst nightmares have the same people in them.

And suddenly all your troubles melt away, all your worries are gone, and it is for no reason other than the look in your partner's eyes. Yes, sometimes life and love really is that simple.