Fear doesn't go away. The warrior and the artist live by the same code of necessity, which dictates that the battle must be fought anew every day.

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.

Chase the story behind the stock, not the money on the table. Money will make you rich, but the story will make you wealthy.

If you can see the invisible, God will do the impossible.

Proportion is the heart of beauty.

Those who believe in it are the ones who find it.

A theme in a lot of my books - and in my own life - is making choices that you feel you should make, or what society wants you to make, as opposed to what is truly right for you.

I've invented Twofacebook, the antisocial network. You start being friends w/entire world & defriend people one by one.

This toast feels raw. Is it safe to eat raw toast?

Death came, Death went, but Commerce flowed Eternal.

Shakespeare has no answers for us at all

They say that falling in love is wonderful, it's wonderful, so they say.