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.

Resistance cannot be seen, touched, heard, or smelled. But it can be felt.

It is a commonplace among artists and children at play that they're not aware of time or solitude while they're chasing their vision. The hours fly. The sculptress and the tree-climbing tyke both look up blinking when Mom calls, 'Suppertime!'

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

On the field of The Self stand a knight and a dragon. You are the knight. Resistance is the dragon.

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

If you find yourself asking yourself (and your friends), "Am I really a writer? Am I really an artist?" chances are you are. The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.