Writers think in metaphors. Editors work in metaphors. A great reader reads in metaphors.

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.

I would not sacrifice a single living mesquite tree for any book ever written. One square mile of living desert is worth a hundred 'great books' - and one brave deed is worth a thousand.

Right and wrong matters little when survival matters most.

You can put anything into words, except your own life

I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

Getting out of your comfort zone, creating an adventure is really good.

We have lost, being born, as much as we shall lose dying: Everything!

Who you are as a character is kind of the foundation of everything.

The military and the clergy cause us much annoyance; the clergy and the military, they empty our wallets and rob our intelligence.

Legislation needs a better reason than that lawyers like it, and that America does it.

Greece is not a country of happy mediums: everything there seems to be either wonderful or horrible.