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

It may be that the human race is not ready for freedom. The air of liberty may be too rarefied for us to breathe... The paradox seems to be, as Socrates demonstrated long ago, that the truly free individual is free only to the extent of his own self-mastery. While those who will not govern themselves are condemned to find masters to govern over them.

It’s not the writing part that’s hard. What’s hard is sitting down to write.

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

No industry is immune and no occupation is safe. All of us need to begin to think in terms of our own inner strengths, our resilience and resourcefulness, our capacity to adapt and to rely upon ourselves and our families.

The professional does not permit himself to become hidebound within one incarnation, however comfortable or successful. Like a transmigrating soul, he shucks his outworn body and dons a new one. He continues his journey.

Do you love your idea? Does it feel right on instinct? Are you willing to bleed for it?