Resistance will tell you anything to keep you from doing your work.

The song we’re composing already exists in potential. Our work is to find it.

The highest treason a crab can commit is to make a leap for the rim of the bucket.

The hero wanders, the hero suffers, the hero returns. You are that hero.

Nothing fires the warrior’s heart more with courage than to find himself and his comrades at the point of annihilation, at the brink of being routed and overrun, and then to dredge not merely from one’s own bowels or guts but from one’s discipline and training the presence of mind not to panic, not to yield to the possession of despair, but instead to complete those homely acts of order which Dienekes had ever declared the supreme accomplishment of the warrior: to perform the commonplace under far-from-commonplace conditions.

The professional, though he accepts money, does his work out of love. He has to love it. Otherwise he wouldn’t devote his life to it of his own free will.

Our greatest battle is to become ourselves, in the face of adversity.