I’ve learned over the years that when I go to that place of passion within me, there’s no force in the universe that can interfere with my completing a project.

I imagine I will be less involved in film and be focused more on family and foreign affairs.

I don’t tell people, ‚You’re okay the way that you are.‘ That’s not the right story. The right story is, ‚You’re way less than you could be.‘

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and everyone who humbles himself will be exalted.

People gonna be they own individuals and have they own worlds and I can’t knock it.

My whole life is a theater piece.

I believe that one key to success is to accept truth, no matter how it’s spoken.

Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

It’s very fun to be the hunter of the sounds. The hunter of the right energy. And it’s not really about if every sound is correct; it’s more the energy – if it hits you in some way, it doesn’t really matter to me if it’s not perfect. I’m still very excited while hunting for songs.

There weren’t a lot of career opportunities in crazy-fast hardcore punk, so you didn’t have a lot of ambition, just the love and passion to play music with your friends.

I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.

I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself.

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you’re a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

I think it’s quite great to set yourself a big challenge, and then you’ve got another reason for keeping fit.

The only way round is through.

To be honest, I never really considered myself to be too much of an actress. So, whenever I get the chance to do music, I’m always, like, just in it. It’s like, ‚Oh my God, I finally get to do this. I’m so happy.‘

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury.

I know my flaws before other people point them out to me.

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

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Whatever you want to do, do with full passion and work really hard towards it. Don’t look anywhere else. There will be a few distractions, but if you can be true to yourself, you will be successful for sure.

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.

I’m not frightened of appearing vulnerable.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

I feel that I’ve done what I wanted to do, and that makes me feel fairly content.

I’m kind of fascist with myself, you know.

You can live your life angry, bitter, mad at somebody or even guilty, not letting go of your own mistakes, but you won’t receive the good things God has in store.

I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.

If a subject excites us, if it stirs our deepest curiosity, or if we have to learn because the stakes are high, we pay much more attention. What we absorb sinks in.

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

I’m aware that, whatever the circumstances, there will always be speculation about me.

I can promise you that when I go to Sacramento, I will pump up Sacramento.

Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

Choose people who lift you up.

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

Don’t let yesterday use up too much of today.

I’m sure like everyone else I’m not always the happiest if I don’t do a good job in quali or the race or whatever, so I think beating myself up sometimes makes me work harder.

If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don’t stop, don’t put it down.

In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.

Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

When I was a youngster I lived with different families. I nearly always felt closer to the man of the house. Maybe because I always dreamed of having a father of my own.

What keeps me motivated is love and passion.

We’re going to be OK because of the American people. They have more grit, determination and courage than you can imagine.

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.

Of course it would be nice for everybody and myself if we could win but we can still have a personal or a team win if we achieve a target that is effectively a win for us.

When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.

Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams.

It’s lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.

To create something you must be something.

I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up – they have no holidays.

Satan wants us to constantly focus on everything that is wrong with us and look at how far we still have to go. But God desires for us to rejoice in how far we have already come.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

My passion is bringing storylines around and constructing a full body of work rather than just a 16-bar verse.

Doing the box set is one of those things where you get to rewrite your own history to some extent. We could take out some of the songs that we felt weren’t as strong as some of the others, so you look better.