I knew early on that I wanted to entertain in some form. And I knew I would work as hard as anyone to do it.

You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

You might win some, you might lose some. But you go in, you challenge yourself, you become a better man, a better individual, a better fighter.

Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

Love is easy, and I love writing. You can’t resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you’re in love.

We’re just enthusiastic about what we do.

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.

Disneyland is the star, everything else is in the supporting role.

I’m sure that at no point in my life could I ever have shown the kind of focus and discipline and commitment necessary to work a station at elBulli or Le Bernardin. No. That ain’t me.

The greatest thing about being a comedian is knowing other comedians. And you get to talk to them. Its the most fun.

I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

The most challenging project I’ve ever done, I think, is every single thing I’ve ever tried to do. It’s never easy.

I love to take, process and share photos – it fills me up.

When I say something’s going to happen, it’s going to happen.

I’ve made money, and I’ve been ripped off. I’ve had creative freedom, and I’ve been pressured to make hits. I have dealt with diva behavior from crazy musicians, and I have seen genius records by wonderful artists get completely ignored. I love music. I always will.

You just wait. I’m going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.

For some of us, watching a miniseries that lasts longer than most marriages is not easy.

A lot of people think I’m a comedian.

I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

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

I am not designed to come second or third. I am designed to win.

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it.

I’m Mickey Mouse. They don’t know who’s inside the suit.

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

I can dance to just about anything.

Music is in my DNA!

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.

Dude, maybe not everyone loves ‚Glee.‘ Me included. I watched 10 minutes and it wasn’t my thing.

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

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success… such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

I love to go to the zoo. But not on Sunday. I don’t like to see the people making fun of the animals, when it should be the other way around.

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

I’m not going to get somewhere and say, ‚OK, I’m done.‘ Success is never final; I’ll just keep on going. The same way as failure never being fatal. Just keep going. I’m going to the stars and then past them.

It’s important to love in hip hop.

Honestly, I never really put the mic down.

If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last – but eat you he will.

Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose.

Marines don’t know how to spell the word ‚defeat‘.

There are phases in life which surface at times, and it makes you understand that despite you working hard, everything what you are doing is probably not enough. That’s when you need to look around, and beyond.

Above everything else I’ve done, I’ve always said I’ve had more guts than I’ve got talent.

Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.

I don’t think comedy will ever die.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

It’s not ‚can‘; it’s ‚will.‘ You have to will things into fruition.

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

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

I’m not gonna be bad at anything, and I want to actually be the best at anything I’m doing. So if I’m playing basketball, if I’m taking the SATs, like, there’s a competitive spirit behind it. With production, it’s the same thing.

In Hollywood you can see things at night that are fast enough to be in the Olympics in the day time.

When I prepare, I am not messing around. I find the right places, the right people, and the right environment. Iceland is one of those places.

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

Men like a ref decision because they just want to get back to the game.

Lots of young players have triumphed at United, so why can’t it happen to me? I’m not worried I’m young – it’s an incentive to do the best I can.

I grew up where, when a door closed, a window didn’t open. The only thing I had was cracks. I’d do everything to get through those cracks – scratch, claw, bite, push, bleed. Now the opportunity is here. The door is wide open, and it’s as big as a garage.