A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

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.

Honestly, I never really put the mic down.

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.

Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.

You throw batting practice, you warm up pitchers, you sit and cheer. You do whatever you have to do to stay on the team.

I just know that I’m a fan of all different kinds of genres. You’re supposed to be free doing music, and that’s how I feel.

I’ve got a woman’s ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you’re signed up for a season, see it through. You don’t have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.

What I’ve discovered is that in art, as in music, there’s a lot of truth-and then there’s a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It’s the moment that the audience falls in love.

You want to be a writer? Start writing. You want to be a filmmaker? Start shooting stuff on your phone right now.

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

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I’d still swim. And I’d despise the one who gave up.

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.

There’s no point in saying anything but the truth.

The only passion that guides me is for the truth… I look at everything from this point of view.

Being self-made means never making an excuse as to why you can’t take steps toward whatever your goal is.

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

Before success comes in any man’s life, he’s sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That’s exactly what the majority of men do.

I just got to feel that whoever I marry has some real regard for me.

Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinately.

Never give in – never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.

I like to work and am a focused person.

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

There’s a big difference between falling in love with someone and falling in love with someone and getting married. Usually, after you get married, you fall in love with the person even more.

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

Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.

If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.

We should play free football, defend lively with a passion, and have the best understanding in offence.

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

The people you choose to have around you make all the difference. My family and close friends keep me grounded. You have to have a mind of your own and a strong head on your shoulders. Cricket is the most important thing to me, so the rest of it pales in comparison.

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

There are different ways to do innovation. You can plant a lot of seeds, not be committed to any particular one of them, but just see what grows. And this really isn’t how we’ve approached this. We go mission-first, then focus on the pieces we need and go deep on them and be committed to them.

If I am a cup maker, I’m interested in making the best cup I possibly can. My effort goes into that cup, not what people think about it.

Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.

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.

Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one.

I never thought about what people would say about me. I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor, and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.

Consider the fellow. He never spends his time telling you about his previous night’s date. You get the idea he has eyes only for you and wouldn’t think of looking at another woman.

I’ll never make it, it will never happen, because they’re never going to hear me ‚cause they’re screaming all the time.

Quitting doesn’t enter my mind.

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

In the flush of love’s light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.

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.

Nashville is my home, and the reason why I get to do what I love.

Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn’t much. But the things that I’m really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I’m not successful, what do I have?

I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when I didn’t write. I started again at 16 and have no idea why, but it was suddenly the only thing I wanted to do.

Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.

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

You must take the compromise to win, or else nothing. That means: you race or you do not.

There’s not much time to unwind, but you know what, it’s because I love what I do. I look forward to the season. I look forward to playing games. It doesn’t ever feel like work.

A lot of times I find that people who are blessed with the most talent don’t ever develop that attitude, and the ones who aren’t blessed in that way are the most competitive and have the biggest heart.

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

When I was young I felt really overwhelmed and confused by the desire not to end up in an office, doing something I didn’t believe in.

When I get on a roll with something, it’s really hard for me to put it down unfinished.

I started out as a poet. I’ve always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels.

No, there is literally nothing on the business side that I wouldn’t sacrifice in a heartbeat to have an extra couple of hours‘ writing. Nothing.