The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.

And die of nothing but a rage to live.

I don’t know who I would have been if I never watched MotoGP.

Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one.

If this were all to go away tomorrow, all the big success, I would still be very happy going from bar to bar playing music for people.

Law is mind without reason.

The only thing I understand deeply, because in my teens I was thinking about it, and every year of my life, is software. So I’ll never be hands-on on anything except software.

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

Football fans share a universal language that cuts across many cultures and many personality types. A serious football fan is never alone. We are legion, and football is often the only thing we have in common.

I guess you could say it’s always been my destiny to be a performer.

The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion.

There has to be something in every role that interests you.

The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.

I love being in a courtroom.

Although I’ve been living in the British Virgin Islands for some time now, I have never stopped caring passionately about the U.K. and its great people.

Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

I guess, taking away all the theatrics or the costuming and the outer layers of what I do, I’m a writer… I write.

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.

Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything. If you don’t write stories you love, you’ll never make it. If you don’t write stories that other people love, you’ll never make it.

As a comedian, I found this thing, this profession, that suits my mind and life force. To drop it to do something else? I just don’t get that.

I believe in a passion for inclusion.

Van Gogh never made a penny in his entire lifetime. He painted because it was his soul, his excitement. It was what aligned him with his Source of being. It’s the same with me and writing.

I do my job like I breathe.

I didn’t want to be a fashion designer, and for a good half of my career I didn’t like it. I always wanted to do other things.

The companies that work are the ones that people really care about and have a vision for the world so do something you like.

I didn’t have nothin‘ going for me… school, home… until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.

An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.

We’re just enthusiastic about what we do.

There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.

I’ve been writing my entire life, and I’ll always write.

I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn’t think I could do anything else. So I read and read and wrote short stories and dreamed of escape.

I know I’m talented, but I wasn’t put here to sing. I was put here to be a wife and a mom and look after my family. I love what I do, but it’s not where it begins and ends.

If I am a cup maker, I’m interested in making the best cup I possibly can. My effort goes into that cup, not what people think about it.

The incomparable greatness of the religions of the East lies in their having been second to none in vibrating with the passion for unity. This note, which is essential to every form of mysticism, has even penetrated them so deeply that we find ourselves falling under a spell simply by uttering the names of their Gods.

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

I’m just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression.

People should pursue what they’re passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.

My dream is to continue filming until my body tells me to stop.

Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one’s reason; bad people stir one’s imagination.

I really love the culture of hip-hop.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

I’m just wanting to make the proper breakfast and keep the house. That’s my passion. At the request of my kids, I’m taking cooking classes. As I go to sleep at night, I think, ‚Did I do a great job as a mom, or was that an average day?‘

You want to do good things, and once you’ve done a couple of good things in a row, you think ‚Well gee, let’s not mess this up.‘ But I am lucky at this point that I have something I really love to do, and it completely holds my attention. I never feel frustrated by it.

It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.

There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when I didn’t write. I started again at 16 and have no idea why, but it was suddenly the only thing I wanted to do.

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.

I love to take, process and share photos – it fills me up.

If you’re a surfer, you just want to surf. You don’t know if anyone’s going to see you, and you don’t really care if they see you. You just live for that feeling.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

I mean, what would I be doing if I couldn’t write? But that fortunately hasn’t proved to be the case and I can read any day. I still read a lot, and I can write any day, but much more slowly and fewer words.

When I look at acting careers that I really admire, I see that it’s been a precise decision-making process for these people. They make decisions based on what they love, and they do only the things that they are passionate about. They play only characters that they can’t stop thinking about.

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.

If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.

Without football, my life is worth nothing.

Playing basketball all my life, I’ve collected a lot of different basketball shoes. It’s pretty much all I wear.

Faith… must be enforced by reason… when faith becomes blind it dies.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

I don’t believe you could be a 39-year-old quarterback in the NFL and eat cheeseburgers every day. I want to be able to do what I love to do for a long time.

O, you men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me. You do not know the secret cause which makes me seem that way to you, and I would have ended my life – it was only my art that held me back. Ah, it seemed impossible to leave the world until I had brought forth all that I felt was within me.