Start before you’re ready. Good things happen when we start before we’re ready.

Contempt for failure is our cardinal virtue.

Resistance will tell you anything to keep you from doing your work.

If you were meant to cure cancer or write a symphony or crack cold fusion and you don't do it, you not only hurt yourself, even destroy yourself. You hurt your children. You hurt me. You hurt the planet.

We are all warriors. Each of us struggles every day to define and defend our sense of purpose and integrity, to justify our existence on the planet and to understand, if only within our own hearts, who we are and what we believe in.

The Spartans say that any army may win while it still has legs under it; the real test comes when all strength is fled and the men must produce victory on will alone.

Every artist has to face his own demons and evolve his own method of working.