The hack is like a politician who consults the polls before he takes a position. He's a demagogue. He panders.

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.

It was tempting to take refuge in feelings of British superiority, although I disliked myself for it and hoped it didn't show.

Whatever the ups and downs of detail within our limited experience the larger whole is primarily beautiful.

The man who wins is the man who hangs on just five minutes longer after everyone else has quit.

What is incarnation? Incarnation is self-reflection. The universe that we are in is constructed, is a reflection of ourselves. We picked the dimension according to our self-reflection.

Today, it is more important than ever to raise human consciousness, so that technology becomes a means of empowerment, not destruction.

That which renders life burdensome to us generally arises from the abuse of it.

If I, being a mother of two, can win a medal, so can you all. Take me as an example and don't give up.

Of course, with the people you really know, no one changes that much.

We have to work harder to develop a profound theology of women within the church. The feminine genius is needed wherever we make important decisions.

The problem with these interviews is that there's no sarcastic font.