You have never tasted freedom, friend, or you would know it is purchased not with gold, but steel.

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.

...success is not a comparison of what we have done with what others have done.

...I retreat into my fictional world where everything makes sense - but even there I can't even control what people do...

The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect

It is easy to destroy a book, but an idea once implanted has roots no man can utterly destroy.

History proves that the white man is a devil.

Who here actually thinks I would do 50 Shades of Grey as a movie? Like really. For real. In real life.

The complaints which anyone voices against his mate indicate exactly the qualities which stimulated attraction before marriage.

All the Cosmic Drama, as it is written in the four Gospels, should be lived inside ourselves, here and now. The isn't something merely historic, it's something to live, here and now!

I never said I was an angel. Nor am I innocent or holy like the Virgin Mary. What I am is natural and serious and as sensitive as an open nerve on an ice cube.

I will take his secret to the grave, telling people I meet on the way.