Intention

To have something to say is a question of sleepless nights and worry and endless ratiocination of subject - of endless trying to dig out the essential truth, the essential justice. As a first premise you have to develop a conscience and if on top of that you have talent so much the better. But if you have talent without the conscience, you are just one of many thousands of journalists.

What does purpose mean?  It means the deepest desire for our short lives to mean something. . . .

To speak a language of purpose is to return to first principles and to be able to answer, in plain English, the plain questions of Why? Why should we chip in to help someone else?  Why should we defer gratification?  Why should we care about the long term?  Why should we trust anyone who seems to be limiting our ability to do what we want? 

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly.  Never mistake activity for achievement.

The reality of life is that your perceptions -- right or wrong -- influence everything else you do. When you get a proper perspective of your perceptions, you may be surprised how many other things fall into place.

Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my cell.

All that we are arises with our thoughts. 
With our thoughts we make the world.

The first duty of a human being is to find your real job and do it.

The first duty of a human being is to find your real job and do it.

The first duty of a human being is to find your real job and do it.

We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us.

We judge others by their behavior. We judge ourselves by our intentions.