My focus is my art, and that’s what I love to do. I have to be really passionate in order to do something. I’ve turned down many things that I just didn’t believe in.

Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.

Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organization be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path. If you first understand that, then you will see how impossible it is to organize a belief.

Writing is like a ‚lust,‘ or like ‚scratching when you itch.‘ Writing comes as a result of a very strong impulse, and when it does come, I, for one, must get it out.

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?

In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth – often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.

I love making music. That’s what I love to do. So I don’t feel like there’s any need to take a break unless I want to.

I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.

God’s Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm.

I feel that when you care about your music, taking risks is something you should do to keep things exciting.

I never called my work an ‚art‘. It’s part of show business, the business of building entertainment.

If I want to do well in racing I need to be more focused so I stopped going to school. If I wasn’t a very good driver it would not be a wise decision, but it gives me an advantage over my competitors.

I probably work harder, putting in a lot of time and effort, than a lot of drivers because all I think about, and all I do, is to do with racing, trying to make myself a better driver.

Obviously, the cinematography of films is art, just as a still shot can be art. If I’m watching a Wes Anderson movie, the colour palettes alone, and the way they’re painted, could be art. With music, you’re a little bit limited, of course, because it’s only audio.

I had a rough childhood coming up, and I just took all that negative energy and made it very positive for myself to drive me. I’m a very driven person. I have passion that almost scares people, just to be successful and make it no matter what.

I love food.

I love performing, you know, because, like I say, I’m a ham for this stuff.

I am a nuclear physicist by training and a deeply committed Christian. I don’t have any doubt in my own mind about God who created the entire universe. But I don’t adhere to passages that so and so was created 4,000 years before Christ, and things of that kind.

The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.

When you’re one of the leaders of the team, there are no days off.

Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

I happen to believe there is evil in the world.

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

I don’t really read a lot of newspapers. I don’t pay attention to what is being said or written about me. I’ve had lots of experiences in the past when I got too much into it. That sort of diverts your focus.

After getting out of the service and going into baseball I never wanted to do anything else.

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

I don’t think the money people in Hollywood have ever thought I was normal, but I am dedicated to my work and that’s what counts.

I don’t really focus on these things – on what tags are given to me or what people think of me off the field – stuff like that. My main focus is always to do well on the field for the Indian cricket team. When people say good things about me off the field, I am more than happy to accept them.

I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria – when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.

In times of need, God can come to you in a myriad of disguises.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

If you ask the CEO of some major corporation what he does, he will say, in all honesty, that he is slaving 20 hours a day to provide his customers with the best goods or services he can and creating the best possible working conditions for his employees.

John Kerry believes in an America where hard work is rewarded.

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

I just want to lobby for God.

Atheism is a non-prophet organization.

A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.

The true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun.

The presence of passion within you is the greatest gift you can receive. Treat it as a miracle.

Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It’s rage, it’s creativity, it’s pain, it’s hurt, but it’s the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in history that had brought me along one generation late. I had missed all the great times and adventures in flight.

I was born on a full moon. Both my children were born on full moons, too. Some people say that’s scary. It is what it is, man, I don’t be trippin‘. I couldn’t tell God when I wanted to be born.

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.

Art is going to make a bigger comeback than ever. That’s the upside to things getting challenging.

There are two great forces, God’s force of good and the devil’s force of evil, and I believe Satan is alive and he is working, and he is working harder than ever, and we have many mysteries that we don’t understand.

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

Duty cannot exist without faith.

I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence.

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

I’m rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work, it’s no longer his… I just see what people make of it.

If you do things, whether it’s acting or music or painting, do it without fear – that’s my philosophy. Because nobody can arrest you and put you in jail if you paint badly, so there’s nothing to lose.

I’ve always been a singer. I never really decided I was gonna be a singer. It just kind of – I just sung a lot.

Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.

The way to know life is to love many things.

All those who believe in psychokinesis – raise my hand.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.