Its [Resistance] aim is to shove us away, distract us from doing our work.
A cavalryman's horse should be smarter than he is. But the horse must never be alowed to know this.
Creative work is not a selfish act or a bid for attention on the part of the actor. It's a gift to the world and every being in it. Don't cheat us of your contribution. Give us what you've got.
We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause.
As all born teachers, he was primarily a student.
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.