When we sit down to work, we become like a magnetized rod that attracts iron filings. 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.

...A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.

Never give up. Dare to Dream. Dare to believe.

To greet each day ossified

Tell me, what do they do for us in Bulgaria? Do they fix the prices? Or is there some kind of a free market?

When I demanded of my friend what viands he preferred, He quoth: "A large cold bottle, and a small hot bird!"

Remember the hours after Sept. 11 when we came together as one...It was the worst day we have ever seen, but it brought out the best in all of us.

Clothe with life the weak intent, Let me be the thing I meant.

I try to keep what I say. And I - I'm not deviated from this position at all.

He thrived with passion and compassion, humor and style. We had him whether we know who he was or did not know, he was ours and we were his.

Marriage is about compromise; it's about doing something for the other person, even when you don't want to.