Nothing is as empowering as real-world validation, even if it's for failure.

Rule of thumb: The more important a call or action is to our soul's evolution, the Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it.

The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.

The professional learns to recognize envy-driven criticism and to take it for what it is: the supreme compliment. The critic hates most that which he would have done himself if he had had the guts.

To yield to Resistance deforms our spirit. It stunts us and makes us less than we are and were born to be.

...she (the artist, the writer) doesn't wait for inspiration, she acts in the anticipation of its apparition.

The professional has learned that success, like happiness, comes as a by-product of work. The professional concentrates on the work and allows rewards to come or not come, whatever they like.

We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause.

The sign of the amateur is overglorification of and preoccupation with the mystery. The professional shuts up. She doesn't talk about it. She does her work.

The awakening an artist must be ruthless, not only with herself but with others.

Next morning I went over to Paul’s for coffee and told him I had finished. “Good for you, ” he said without looking up. “Start the next one today.

Hazrat Ali, in a saying attributed to him, says: ‘Man is in disguise, covered by his tongue’.

The truth is, time travel is hard, and people are lazy.

Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath.

One of my favorite Japanese proverbs is "Fall down 7 times, stand up 8".

Bob [Dylan] is not authentic at all. He's a plagiarist, and his name and voice are fake. Everything about Bob is a deception. We are like night and day, he and I.

Love is like the measles; the older you are when it hits you, the harder it takes. Cheer up, you won't die of it.

Well, I can admire stubbornness in a man. There is little to a man who's too easily biddable.

Our perception of space alters the space. It is consciousness that finds meanings in all spaces

I think the colleges should be free to give athletes less than a full scholarship, no scholarship and more than a scholarship. And the athletes should be free to bargain.

It's just Gods way of getting babies to heaven faster!