Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows – and china.

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

Nothing is stopping me from doing what I love to do.

Basically, I live to do gigs.

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.

People are going to buy cheap fertilizer so they can grow enough crops to feed themselves, which will be increasingly difficult with climate change.

If it wasn’t for baseball, I’d be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.

The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.

After getting out of the service and going into baseball I never wanted to do anything else.

It’s important to love in hip hop.

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

I’m not a writer who teaches. I’m a teacher who writes.

At the end of the day, we started playing football because we loved it.

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

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

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

Van Gogh never made a penny in his entire lifetime. He painted because it was his soul, his excitement. It was what aligned him with his Source of being. It’s the same with me and writing.

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

A lot of people like to do certain things, but they’re not that good at it. Keep going through the things that you like to do, until you find something that you actually seem to be extremely good at. It can be anything.

I’m born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.

I love to dance, but my children tell me I shouldn’t. Can’t see why.

Many people have an intense feeling about what they’re best at. Too often, they’re driven away from it by other people.

Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That’s what’s important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

The first real thought that I had of something that I might do was to write for car magazines, because I always had a car thing.

Music is in my DNA!

Playing basketball all my life, I’ve collected a lot of different basketball shoes. It’s pretty much all I wear.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

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.‘

When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It’s very simple.

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

I always felt that if I was going to do a movie, I wanted it to be authentic.

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you’re a thousand miles from the corn field.

If we could do high-speed rail in California just half a notch above what they’ve done on the Shanghai line in China, and if we had a straight path from L.A. to San Francisco, as well as the milk run, at least that would be progress.

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn’t think I could do anything else. So I read and read and wrote short stories and dreamed of escape.

The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.

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.

Art was, seriously, the only thing I’d ever wanted to own. It has always been for me a stable nourishment. I use it. It can change the way that I feel in the mornings.

At the end of the day, who I really and truly am is a little girl who loved to play the piano.

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

I’ve never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves – it’s just a question of finding the subject.

May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

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

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.

The law is reason, free from passion.

I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever – was write novels.

People should pursue what they’re passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.

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

We are looking for happiness and running after it in such a way that creates anger, fear and discrimination. So when you attend a retreat, you have a chance to look at the deep roots of this pollution of the collective energy that is unwholesome.

Without football, my life is worth nothing.

More understand China, then more people will have interest in China and more people will come to China to visit us because I am a tourist ambassador.

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.

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.

The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all the major military powers.

We love things we love what they are.

Where would I be without baseball? Who am I without baseball?

My dream is to continue filming until my body tells me to stop.