Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.

Becoming a writer is not a ‚career decision‘ like becoming a doctor or a policeman. You don’t choose it so much as get chosen, and once you accept the fact that you’re not fit for anything else, you have to be prepared to walk a long, hard road for the rest of your days.

My company survives because I’ve learned to respect the ideas of people younger than me and recognize when my wisdom is obsolete.

I do things I love doing. Sometimes that is maybe going out to have a drink with friends, going out partying or whatever.

My songs are like my children – I expect them to support me when I’m old.

Well, I have great respect for Senator Hirono.

I’d have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

I can understand how some people might resent me for having the audacity to continue playing music, but it’d take a lot more than that to stop me from doing it. I started Foo Fighters because I didn’t want to retreat.

Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them up with great passion. That is because human beings need stories.

You gotta understand: I believe a woman should praise the man, the king. If you holding it down for your woman, I feel like the woman should praise. And the man should praise the queen.

God didn’t make me to make movies, flex muscles, buy gold. What you love the most becomes your God… If I never make another dollar, my life is complete.

I have an immense amount of respect for acting. I’ve always loved movies and was always fascinated by movie-making. But to become an actor, I wanted to commit myself.

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

It’s important to love in hip hop.

The Pope loves everyone, rich and poor alike, but the Pope has the duty, in Christ’s name, to remind the rich to help the poor, to respect them, to promote them.

I always thought about working in England because of the kind of football, the intensity of football. Liverpool was first choice.

I was a sociology major. And it had nothing to do necessarily with law, which is ultimately – I went to law school. But what I tried to do was choose something that I was passionate about or something that I cared about.

I have noticed… that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women.

There’s one advantage in having been around as long as I have. Everybody in the Senate knows me, and – I’m going to say something presumptuous, to repeat myself – I think most respect me.

Oh yes, I love to do shoes. I’m not a fetishist but I love to do shoes.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

You just don’t wake up one day and decide that you need to write songs.

Always make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your desire to please or impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite – inspire fear and insecurity.

Be as polite to the custodian as you are to the chairman of the board.

I am a professional sportswriter, among other things, and I take the games seriously. It is only one of my many powerful addictions, and I don’t mind admitting any of them.

It seems like when I was growing up there was more compromise, wanting to work with each other, and I think all of them – all of the lawmakers – have hearts to do what’s right, and they all are passionate about it.

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.

If my films don’t show a profit, I know I’m doing something right.

I say this everywhere I go: I admire and respect Hillary. She has been a lawyer, a law professor, First Lady of Arkansas, First Lady of the United States, a U.S. Senator, Secretary of State.

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

If you’re going to spend two years of your life on something, it has to matter to you; you have to be passionate about it.

We don’t make music – it makes us.

What I like to do is try to make a difference with the work I do.

Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.

If the standard transsexual person wants to be regarded as he or she, my sense is I’ll address you according to the part that you appear to be playing.

We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn’t a matter of political correctness. It’s a matter of understanding what makes us strong. The world respects us not just for our arsenal; it respects us for our diversity and our openness and the way we respect every faith.

If you are born an artist, you have no choice but to fight to stay an artist.

I think that by staying true to myself and making music from my heart, the blessings come.

Never ask anyone over 70 how they feel. They’ll tell you.

When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.

Honestly, I never really put the mic down.

Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion.

It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put – without delay, and with tenderness – back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.

Once I get on a puzzle, I can’t get off.

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

I knew early on that I wanted to entertain in some form. And I knew I would work as hard as anyone to do it.

I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.

I’ve sat in sushi bars, really fine ones, and I know how hard this guy worked, how proud he is. I know you don’t need sauce. I know he doesn’t even want you to pour sauce. And I’ve seen customers come in and do that, and I’ve seen him, as stoic as he tries to remain, I’ve seen him die a little inside.

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.

My father used to have an expression. He’d say, ‚Joey, a job is about a lot more than a paycheck. It’s about your dignity. It’s about respect. It’s about your place in your community.‘

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

People are already finding ways to make their music and play it in front of people and have a life in music, I guess, and I think that’s pretty much all you can ask.

The notion that before you even set out to go to Thailand, you say, ‚I’m not interested,‘ or you’re unwilling to try things that people take so personally and are so proud of and so generous with, I don’t understand that, and I think it’s rude. You’re at Grandma’s house, you eat what Grandma serves you.

God gave you a brain. Do the best you can with it. And you don’t have to be Einstein, but Einstein was mentally tough. He believed what he believed. And he worked out things. And he argued with people who disagreed with him. But I’m sure he didn’t call everybody jerks.

Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.

Music will never go away, and I will never stop making music; it’s just what capacity or what arena you decide to do it.

If I could, I would not do anything else. I’d just be in the studio for my whole life. I would never go to parties, events, and red carpets. I would rather just be in the studio for the whole time. I don’t even care. Nobody has to know what I look like. I just want to make music.

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

The way I figured it, I was even with baseball and baseball with me. The game had done much for me, and I had done much for it.