When we conquer our fears, we discover a boundless, bottomless, inexhaustible well of passion.

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.

What is more painful: Unable to get the Love of your life or being Indifference to the One who loves you the most?

Racism is a stubborn whitehead on the face of society.

Proper process, should not hinder progress. Too much focus on process, has left many blind to measured, tangible progress.

The most ominous of fallacies: the belief that things can be kept static by inaction.

Approach every day as if it's a new world, because it IS.

My best moment of 2011 would definitely be the birth of my daughter six weeks ago, on September 25.

Nothing whatsoever is worth the cost of a contracted heart.

To live is often to struggle toward goals one has no desire to reach.

Is it not monstrous that our seducers should be our accusers?

Every day I am inspired by what's possible.