The essence of professionalism is the focus upon the work and its demands, while we are doing it, to the exclusion of all else.

To labor in the arts for any reason other than love is prostitution.

We will have to choose between the life we want for our future and the life we have left behind.

Courage is inseparable from love and leads to what may arguably be the noblest of all warrior virtues: selflessness.

Resistance is greatest just before the finish line.

There is an enemy. There is an intelligent, active, malign force working against us. Step one is to recognize this. This recognition alone is enormously powerful. It saved my life, and it will save yours.

Contempt for failure is our cardinal virtue.