When we see others beginning to live their authentic selves, it drives us crazy if we have not lived out our own.

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.

Freedom necessarily means that many things will be done which we do not like.

Challenges are part of life. We only need grace to endure.

There's no poetry in me, Reginleit. No fine words." He stared down at her, his gaze seeming to consume her. "I come to you as a man unfinished.

I love mankind it's people I can't stand.

Every person gets negative things, they learn from those negative things, and you become a positive person.

Cover the canvas at the first go, then work at it until you see nothing more to add.

Louis Armstrong changed all the brass players around, but after Bird, all of the instruments had to change - drums, piano, bass, trombones, trumpets, saxophones, everything.

Happiness is a very proud word of our whole cultural heritage.

You count up your dead, every one. Always. Recall them, each and all - every face, every heart.

A government builds its prestige upon the apparently voluntary association of the governed.