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.

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.

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.

The more fear we feel about a specific enterprise, the more certain we can be that that enterprise is important to us and to the growth of our soul.

There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes.

Prayer is a rising up and a drawing near to God in mind and in heart and in spirit.

When something is too beautiful or too terrible or even too funny for words, then it is time for poetry.

Life is strange. You keep moving and keep growing. Before you know it, you look back and think, "What was that?"

Sometimes I can be on a cloud and then two hours later feel really small.

That’s what you do for family. Anything.

Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. To these I commit my day.

I definitely went through my magic phase. I think all little boys do at some point or another - they get fascinated by magic tricks.

The next adventure is the government, a government of change.

It's a very good thing for students also to be exposed to people who aren't film students or film scholars but who work in the world of film.