The only intercourse possible between the knight and the dragon is battle.

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.

There's nothing more devastating in a marriage than when a spouse puts their work, their desires above their partner's heart.

I read to know the past, I write to express my love for the future.

Time is an illusion-to orators.

There's a certain type of character that you can't help but come in contact with growing up and living in Brooklyn and Long Island. A certain mixture of moxie, heart, and a wise guy sense of humor.

A good host is someone who really takes care of everyone, from the food to their daily programme. I can't.

So the challenge for us is to live in such a way that we are radically dependent on and desperate for the power that only God can provide.

I started off in Brooklyn, New York, with a small loan and built a business that today is worth well over $10 billion.

True education is a kind of never-ending story . . .

I'm done with men. I have a hamster. That's all I need.

Do I have to know rules and all that crap? Then forget it.