When we sit down day after day and keep grinding, something mysterious starts to happen... Unseen forces enlist in our cause; serendipity reinforces our purpose.

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.

Major League Baseball is a national institution and we take our responsibilities seriously when it comes to how the game affects the lives of American youth.

We need to listen to one another.

Jesus is our Advocate before God.

The truth is . . . you think what people want you to think.

There's a statue of Jimmy Stewart in the Hollywood Wax Museum, and the statue talks better than he does.

Hardly anybody in America pays attention to local elections.

My father wasn't the best role model to me.

Chance and change are busy ever;Man decays, and ages move;But His mercy waneth never;God is wisdom, God is love.

If you can just be yourself, then you have to be original because there's no one like you.

Iggy Azalea, I can't really get into her. Because it's just not real to me.