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.

I am radically, insanely, nutty in love with Jesus!

Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.

When I get married, it’ll be no secret.

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

Fame may go by and – so long, I’ve had you.

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

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.

The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.

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

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.

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.

Music helps me tell my story. That’s where I can really be heard. But there’s so much focus on the things that aren’t music.

Football changed my life and it gave me a platform to get out my aggression and it gave me a sense of value.

I never felt settled or calm. You can’t really commit to life when you feel that.

Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation’s promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there’s so little competition.

If one has fear, there can be no initiative in the creative sense of the word. To have initiative in this sense is to do something original – to do it spontaneously, naturally, without being guided, forced, controlled. It is to do something which you love to do.

Honestly, I never really put the mic down.

I believe that I’m one of the best in the world at what I do, and that’s all I’ve ever wanted to be.

Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also.

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.

So many writers don’t like to write… I like to write, and sometimes I’m afraid I like it too much, because when I get into work, I don’t want to leave it. And as a result, I’ll go for days and days and days without leaving my house.

I never wanted to stay in one genre; I never wanted to be pigeon-holed or defined as the actor who only worked in one genre. I want to be able to work in all different genres. For me it’s fun, and that’s how I grow as an actor.

Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.

I love football and the intensity of football in Liverpool, this is what is very good for me.

I always want to create and do things, or draw.

I’m gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell ‚em out of the trunk of my car. I’m that kind of musician and singer.

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

When trouble breaks out, our men and women in uniform, they don’t just sit around thinking about it or talking about it – they act. They put on that uniform. They leave their loved ones behind. They go out there. They give orders. They follow orders. They do whatever it takes to keep our country safe.

A promise must never be broken.

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little – somebody who is obsessed by Making.

Cooking is about passion, so it may look slightly temperamental in a way that it’s too assertive to the naked eye.

The important thing is to be in love with something.

Politics is a noble activity. We should revalue it, practise it with vocation and a dedication that requires testimony, martyrdom, that is to die for the common good.

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.

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years.

It doesn’t matter if you want to be a teacher, an astronaut, or a reggaeton singer, you need to study.

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.

Tell me I have to be somewhere, and I’ll be there 20 minutes early and stay there longer than anybody else. You hold up a lot of people if you’re not on time.

On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.

Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.

Getting a great idea with song writing is a lot like love. You don’t know why this one is different, but it is. You don’t know why this one is better, but it is. It sticks in your head, and you can’t stop thinking about it.

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.

A boy carries out suggestions more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.

I like playing for the purple and gold. This is where I want to finish up.

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.

The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.

Nothing is stopping me from doing what I love to do.

Writing is my love. If you love something, you find a lot of time. I write for two hours a day, usually starting at midnight; at times, I start at 11.

At the age when other children, I imagine, experience their first ‚feeling‘ for a person, or for art, or for religion, I was affectionate, good, and even pious: by that I mean that under the influence of my mother, I was devoted to the Child Jesus.

I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don’t know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.

If you have passion, there is no need for excuses because your enthusiasm will trump any negative reasoning you might come up with. Enthusiasm makes excuses a nonissue.

We loved with a love that was more than love.

I desire to press forward for direction to my Master in all things; but as to trusting to my own obedience and righteousness, I should be worse than a fool and ten times worse than a madman.

If you love something – and there are things that I love – you do want more and more and more of it, but that’s not the way to produce good work.

My mom cleaned toilets for a long time, and she’d seen a lot of terrible things, but she was still the strength of our family. And there are women like that all across the country – all around the world – who show that type of fortitude.

Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar.