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.

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.

Authentic leadership is a whole body experience. Our bodies have a lot more to teach us about ourselves than our thoughts.

Short answer 'No, ' Long answer 'Yes, ' with a 'But

Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!

There are moments when you feel trapped, ill at ease. A year later the same feeling can turn out to be the theme of a book.

To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.

I will be guided by the Christian ethic and an awareness that human action is by nature transient.

Seeing is metamorphosis, not mechanism.

I went through a wood-chopping phase when I was nine or 10.

The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.

I don't really have a process. I just start working and keep going until it's done.