The sign of the amateur is overglorification of and preoccupation with the mystery. The professional shuts up. She doesn't talk about it. She does her work.

Long-term, we must begin to build our internal strengths. It isn't just skills like computer technology. It's the old-fashioned basics of self-reliance, self-motivation, self-reinforcement, self-discipline, self-command.

On the artist's journey we are redefining and reconfiguring ourselves and our lives.

A cavalryman's horse should be smarter than he is. But the horse must never be alowed to know this.

We feed it [Resistance] with power by our fear of it. Master that fear and we conquer Resistance.

Socrates demonstrated long ago, that the truly free individual is free only to the extent of his own self-mastery.

When we're living as amateurs, we're running away from our calling - meaning our work, our destiny, the obligation to become our truest and highest selves.