These are not easy questions. Who am I? Why am I here? They're not easy because the human being isn't wired to function as an individual.

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.

Humility is the fundamental principle that builds up greatness. Arrogance on the other hand never brings anything good. When you are humble, you’ll learn to become better.

Love much. Earth has enough of bitter in it.

Be skeptical of concepts that divorce war from its political nature, particularly those that promise fast, cheap victory through technology.

Most people I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing in return and I do very well in the bargain.

I do not think that the radio waves I have discovered will have any practical application.

I don't talk. I just let what I do talk for myself.

Despereaux marveled at his own bravery. He admired his own defiance. And then, reader, he fainted.

While you live, while it is in your power, be good.

Noone knows exactly where thought comes from, but it can be said that thought comes from the same place as whatever it is that beats our heart.. it comes from being alive.

What a teacher needs to know about psychology "might almost be written on the palm of one's hand."