Creative work is not a selfish act or a bid for attention on the part of the actor. It's a gift to the world and every being in it. Don't cheat us of your contribution. Give us what you've got.

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.

Morality does not come from a book, it comes from the human mind.

Recitation of the Qur'an without contemplation and thought is futile.

Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!

I want to see Bob Dylan do sketch comedy. I'm a huge Bob Dylan fan.

But I will never have a bride.

That farewell kiss which resembles greeting, that last glance of love which becomes the sharpest pang of sorrow.

My mom has this great skiing event in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, every year for a local charity.

When you bluff, someone may call you on it.

I will never reach perfection.

Happiness, you'll find, is the greatest magnet in the world.