He's a sturdy fellow, bald as a hen's egg, and like all engineers, practical as a pensioner.
As powerful as is our soul's call, so potent are the forces of Resistance arrayed against it. We're not alone if we've been mowed down by Resistance; millions of good men and women have bitten the dus...
The enemy is in you, but it is not you.
This is what I feared for Michael. That his generation, so strong, so well made, so bright and aware beyond its years, would compare itself to us in envy, envy of the clarity of our challenges and the...
The hardest thing in the world is to be ourselves. Who are we? Our family tells us, society tells us, laws and customs tell us. But what do we say? How do we get to that place of self-knowledge and co...
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 loo...
Once we commit to action, the worst thing we can do is to stop. What will keep us from stopping? Plain old stubbornness. I like the idea of stubbornness because it’s less lofty than tenacity or persev...
The highest treason a crab can commit is to make a leap for the rim of the bucket.
The hill is a sonofabitch but what can you do? Set one foot in front of another and keep climbing.
We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there is such a thing as being to...
The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.
Listen to me, young Hardy. A day will come for you when play becomes torment. When you are drowning, not in water but on dry land. In that hour remember me. I will preserve you.
The paradox seems to be, as Socrates demonstrated long ago, that the truly free individual is free only to the extent of his own self-mastery. While those who will not govern themselves are condemned...
The professional keeps his eye on the doughnut and not on the hole. He reminds himself it's better to be in the arena, getting stomped by the bull, than to be up in the stands or out in the parking lo...
Fame Imperishable and glory that will never die -- that is what we march for!
Making yourself a corporation (or just thinking of yourself in that way) reinforces the idea of professionalism because it separates the artist-doing-the-work from the will-and-consciousness-running-t...
Leonidas’s and Dienekes’ quips draw the individual out of his private terror and yoke him to the group.
What's the difference between a Spartan king and a mid-ranker? One man will lob this query to his mate as they prepare to bed down in the open in a cold driving rain. His friend considers mock-theatri...
The best and only thing that one artist can do for another is to serve as an example and an inspiration.
Indeed, we own a bond, my friend. That most sublime of all: reminiscence for our vanished youth.
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