When we sit down each day and do our work, power concentrates around us... Ideas come. Insights accrete.

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.

It was happening. At least in that little section of the salon, women were connecting and doing what women knew how to do, show compassion, nurturing—helping someone fit in.

Loneliness becomes an acid that eats away at you.

Matisse renovates rather than innovates.

I've always felt that if you back down from a fear, the ghost of that fear never goes away. It diminishes people.

Blended-reality technology could play in a limited, walled-garden world, but history suggests that it won't really take off until it offers broad freedom of use.

I don't know anybody in the underworld. I make this stuff up. I don't know any criminals.

It is delivery that makes the orators success.

I think a fragrance is more of a signature than even what you wear - something you'll remember more down the road than a shirt.

There is no way of telling people that they are all walking around shining like the sun.

The public be damned! (on whether the public should be consulted about luxury trains Aug 1918