Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here obedient to their laws we lie.

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 difference between an amateur and a professional is in their habits. An amateur has amateur habits. A professional has professional habits. We can never free ourselves from habit. But we can replace bad habits with good ones.

Fear doesn't go away. The battle must be fought anew every day.

Reading is alive and well and will get more alive and more well. Reading on tablets (or whatever the next tech device will be) is the future - and the future is now.

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.

Don't cheat the world of your contribution. Give it what you've got.