When you're a working writer, sooner or later friends and acquaintances will get you alone and confide that they, too, have a book in them.

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.

if you feel happy, Smile with all your heart. if you're down, smile with all your might.

You ought to write grateful gratitude every day

When positioning a brand, aggressively avoid becoming a "me too" by assertively being a "who else?

When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Keep exploring. Keep dreaming. Keep asking why. Don’t settle for what you already know. Never stop believing in the power of your ideas, your imagination, your hard work to change the world.

It's not necessarily getting older or the change that comes with it, I think it's more about the memories that you have. Where you can look at your life in these eras.

My music came up from the soil of North Carolina.

There is in every one of us an unending see-saw between the will to live and the will to die.

Art is not democratic. It is not for the people.

The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander.