All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.

Nature does nothing in vain.

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.

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.

I don’t live for the accolades. I’m more so about the music. Making it, and putting it out. Those are the two best feelings.

Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.

I love being on stage, I love being able to tell a story, I love the fact that the audience listens and laughs at it. It makes me happy, and it’s what I live for.

There’s an ecstatic side to writing. It’s like jazz. It just has a life.

It is easier to feel than to realize, or in any way explain, Yosemite grandeur. The magnitudes of the rocks and trees and streams are so delicately harmonized, they are mostly hidden.

God’s desire is that we excel.

The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.

Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.

Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.

I never had to choose a subject – my subject rather chose me.

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

We’re just enthusiastic about what we do.

There is spontaneity to my work.

Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.

My mother is a singer, my sisters all sing, my uncles are incredible singers and guitar players, so it’s just kind of been like my habitat.

Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods.

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

I love movement. I love moshing.

I had a rough childhood coming up, and I just took all that negative energy and made it very positive for myself to drive me. I’m a very driven person. I have passion that almost scares people, just to be successful and make it no matter what.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

Not necessity, not desire – no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything – health, food, a place to live, entertainment – they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.

Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn’t write, I would stop breathing.

When I write, I tend to twist my hair. Something for my small mind to do, I guess.

The generous Critic fann’d the Poet’s fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

Racing, competing, it’s in my blood. It’s part of me, it’s part of my life; I have been doing it all my life and it stands out above everything else.

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature’s delight.

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

I believe in a passion for inclusion.

I always loved advertising. If I hadn’t been in fashion, I’d have been in advertising.

It all went wrong with football, the thing I loved most of all, and from there, my life slowly fell apart.

We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies – it is the first law of nature.

A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

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.‘

Aside from singing, I’m also a dancer. I’ve been dancing since I was 8.

The immigration issue is, I recognize, one that generates a lot of passion, but it does not make sense for us to want to push talent out.

It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.

Pilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying.

When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.

The word ‚belief‘ is a difficult thing for me. I don’t believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it – I don’t need to believe it.

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

To be honest with you, when I got into this I never thought about reviews. 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.

There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

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.

I’ve been writing since I was really young, so I considered myself a writer for a really long time.

As the poet said, ‚Only God can make a tree,‘ probably because it’s so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.

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.‘

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature’s God.

I just am committed wholeheartedly to theatre with no intermission.