The hero wanders, the hero suffers, the hero returns. You are that hero.

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.

Vision is tomorrow's reality expressed as an idea today.

People in this world are cruel, selfish and ignorant. The only way to survive is to be the good side of yourself.

Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.

If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the empowering of the most powerless. You build from the ground up.

The led must not be compelled; they must be able to choose their own leader.

We kind of deny the stages of life.

Sometimes a week might go by when I don't think about the (perfect) game, but I don't remember when it happened last.

Living in an inner state of vulnerability is a powerful practice that opens our hearts, causing us to live in a state of gratitude for our life and life itself.

I need silence, and to be alone and to go out, and to save one hour to consider what has happened to my world, what death has done to my world.

Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt; none out of ten have the inclination.