The Principle of Priority states (a) you must know the difference between what is urgent and what is important, and (b) you must do what’s important first.

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.

The object of art is to enhance the beauty, imaginations and joy of life.

I took on the shape of a girl.

The creative process is not controlled by a switch you can simply turn on or off; it's with you all the time.

For me, it's important that I experience and feel what the characters are feeling. So I put myself in those moments, in their thoughts, and let it happen naturally. I write what I feel.

I am open to everything.

It's like kill or be killed, that's my thing basically.

The person who believes he must earn the right to go through the door of eternal life will miss the mark.

An individual's arrogance is always in proportion to his lack of self-assurance.

I've always known who I am. I might not work perfectly, or be like them, but that's okay. I know I work in my own way.

You either care or you don’t.