The instinct that pulls us toward art is the impulse to evolve, to learn, to heighten and elevate our consciousness. The Ego hates this. Because the more awake we become, the less we need the Ego.

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.

Even though God has given the gift of time to all men equally, it is what each man does with this equal gift of time that determines whether or not he will be great.

Never chase people in your life. No one is worthier than you to be chased.

I've told myself I have a chance to make history, and that's my focus.

You can wave your signs in protest against America taking stands. The stands America's taken are the reason that you can.

Humility accepts the very nature of a human being is complete, unadulterated, ecstatic joy.

I was hired to be an actress, not a personality for the press.

In a world without air all you breathe is adventure!

I'm a very lazy, stay-at-home kind of girl.

Prayer is the means by which men communicate with God. Revelation is the means by which God communicates with men.

Walking is easiest, you don't need a lot of apparatus. Just shoe leather and good feet.