I am an Addictive Personality, they say, a natural slave to passion – and many Doctors have warned me against it. I am a High-risk Patient.

I love being active.

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

It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.

The book that convinced me I wanted to be a writer was ‚Crime and Punishment‘. I put the thing down after reading it in a fever over two or three days… I said, ‚If this is what a book can be, then that is what I want to do.‘

Water is my drink.

I can get where some scientists would say comedians are crazy. What you have to understand: A lot of comedians are dealing with a dark passion. A lot of these are guys coming from a tumultuous life, including myself. Some people need outlets, a way to express yourself.

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

Strong emotions such as passion and bliss are indications that you’re connected to Spirit, or ‚inspired,‘ if you will. When you’re inspired, you activate dormant forces, and the abundance you seek in any form comes streaming into your life.

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.

It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

I was always interested – I mean, it’s kind of part of your job – I was always interested in the camera.

Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.

I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.

Good governance with good intentions is the hallmark of our government. Implementation with integrity is our core passion.

I just am committed wholeheartedly to theatre with no intermission.

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.

Touring is hard on the body.

I think it’s horrible that people have to be told. Don’t smoke! Everybody knows it’s bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.

I think if I keep working in the way that I am, from the heart and from passion and with love, well, the fruits of that will keep coming.

I didn’t live at school, I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time. I don’t know anyone from school. I was just leading a different life. I was really interested in writing and other things.

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.

In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.

I want to be the greatest actor that ever lived, frankly. I’d love that. But I don’t need to be. I just want to be here. That’s it.

When a politician uses the word ‚folks,‘ we should brace ourselves for the deceit, or worse, that is coming.

See, ‚A Time to Kill‘ was the one I got famous off of. Big ka-boom, over one weekend. After that, I did films that I really wanted to do.

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

You’re in pretty good shape for the shape you are in.

Living indoors without fresh air quickly poisons the blood and makes people feel tired and seedy when they don’t know why. For myself, I sleep out of doors in winter as well as summer. I only feel tired or seedy when I have been indoors a lot. I only catch cold when I sleep in a room.

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.

We have soon to have everywhere smoke annihilators, dust absorbers, ozonizers, sterilizers of water, air, food and clothing, and accident preventers on streets, elevated roads and in subways. It will become next to impossible to contract disease germs or get hurt in the city, and country folk will got to town to rest and get well.

I’m never gonna step away from stand-up. I can’t. That’s what got me where I am, and that’s also my muse. That’s how I stay level-headed. That’s what keeps me going.

You will never fulfill your destiny doing work you despise.

I don’t think people should be encouraged to look like Kate Moss; I think that’s unreasonable. I think the normal human body should be glorified. By the same token, if you need a stick to wash yourself, you’re not healthy.

It doesn’t matter where you come from, what you have or don’t have, what you lack, or what you have too much of. But all you need to have is faith in God, an undying passion for what you do and what you choose to do in this life, and a relentless drive and the will to do whatever it takes to be successful in whatever you put your mind to.

Exercise is labor without weariness.

I’ve dreamed about doing music since I was three or four years old.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

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

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 know you’ve heard it a thousand times before. But it’s true – hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it.

Happiness doesn’t come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.

I never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.

It was easy being healthy when I was young. I was full of energy, so sports and physical challenges were fun. But as I got older and the spring left my step, exercise became harder, and eating, drinking and watching TV became easier. By the time I was 50, I’d put on 50 pounds.

My rule is to break one sweat a day.

Rap was my drug.

Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.

The best football is always about expression of emotion. Always.

I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instead of just being a gravely endangered patient.

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

No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson’s. There’s no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came from boxing.

You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.

Walking is man’s best medicine.

Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.

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

My music will go on forever. Maybe it’s a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.

The more cats you have, the longer you live. If you have a hundred cats, you’ll live 10 times longer than if you have 10. Someday this will be discovered, and people will have a thousand cats and live forever. It’s truly ridiculous.

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

I think it’s good for a woman to put on a bit of weight when she gets older – it looks better. But a man has to stay balanced.