Your fruit will outlast your life. You can't always see the effects, because they are eternal, but one day you will. One day you will see that you couldn't have been more significant if you'd tried.

When I left 'The Garry Moore Show,' I signed a 10-year contract with CBS.

she (the artist, the writer) doesn't wait for inspiration, she acts in the anticipation of its apparition.

when we sit down day after day and keep grinding, something mysterious starts to happen. A process is set into motion by which, inevitably and infallibly, heaven comes to our aid. Unseen forces enlist in our cause; serendipity reinforces our purpose.   This is the other secret that real artists know and wannabe writers don't. When we sit down each day and do our work, power concentrates around us. The Muse takes note of our dedication.

When Krishna instructed Arjuna that we have a right to our labor but not to the fruits of our labor, he was counseling the warrior to act territorially, not hierarchically. We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause.

A professional does not take success or failure personally.

Let the unconscious do its work. Research can become Resistance. We want to work, not prepare to work.

The professional shuts up. She doesn't talk about it. She does her work.

When you learn that you inspired someone, it's a huge honor.

The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.

To be a fellow worker with God is the highest aspiration of which we can conceive man capable.

So be steadfast in your commitment to Christ, and be a real VIP—a person with vision, integrity, and God's presence.