If you’re going to spend two years of your life on something, it has to matter to you; you have to be passionate about it.

I don’t like to read things that people write about me. I’d rather read what kids have to say about me because it’s not their profession to do that.

At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.

It is always your next move.

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.

I kinda live where I find myself.

My moms always told me, ‚How long you gonna play the victim?‘ I can say I’m mad and I hate everything, but nothing really changes until I change myself.

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

My life has been very full.

As much as it might look like, to someone else, that I’m successful, I never feel like I’m anywhere. The further I go, I still feel equally further from my eventual goal. Because as I grow, I get more goals. I’m never content.

If I didn’t have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up.

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

I feel matured in a way that I’m happy about. I’m at this other stage in my life – and it’s not a bad thing at all.

I love being busy.

You just don’t wake up one day and decide that you need to write songs.

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

I’ve always wanted to make a career in the arts, and I think that my only hope at doing that is to make it more about the work.

My parents were dealing with evictions and repossessions and electricity getting shut off, and I just realized that I had to get it together.

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

I find with most of my readers are kind of like me, sort of people who were a little bit naive in life and then learned the hard way that this is what’s going on, the political games and most of my readers write to me telling me that the book helped them open their eyes to what other people are doing to them.

I am who I am. That’s why my friends and peers respect and appreciate me. I don’t change or cater my actions to fit my surroundings. I’m myself 24/7. People appreciate that.

As I got older, I guess I became more mellow and more forgiving and more loving.

Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.

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

If you do things, whether it’s acting or music or painting, do it without fear – that’s my philosophy. Because nobody can arrest you and put you in jail if you paint badly, so there’s nothing to lose.

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

When I was four, my mother insisted I get out of the car and find my own way home. Although I got lost, I did find my way home. It taught me the value of independence at an early age.

I’m very secure about my talents and about who I am.

I think it’s healthy for a person to be nervous. It means you care – that you work hard and want to give a great performance. You just have to channel that nervous energy into the show.

When I left the University of Notre Dame, I honestly felt I would never coach again.

I love story songs because I’ve always loved books.

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

Have you ever asked yourselves what you are going to do when you grow up? In all likelihood you will get married, and before you know where you are, you will be mothers and fathers; and you will then be tied to a job, or to the kitchen, in which you will gradually wither away. Is that all that your life is going to be?

I don’t dislike any of my exes. If I took time to form a relationship, it’s gonna hurt when we move on, but are you puttin‘ White-Out over all that beautiful time together? That was real time in your life. It’s connected to where you are today.

The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman’s heart.

The Sisters of Notre Dame at St. Aloysius Grade School influenced my life tremendously. This was due to the fact that they encouraged you always to make sure that God is the focus of your life, and they didn’t allow you to do anything except to the very best of your ability.

Without being the most confident person in the world, I think I am the right person for Liverpool.

Whatever is making you so angry, it’s time for you to give it to God and get over it.

I don’t want to be alone, I want to be left alone.

We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.

For me, I used to be shy towards journalism because it wasn’t poetry. And then I realized that the events that I covered in essays that became journalism were actually great because they inspired me, and they became my muse.

Only the shallow know themselves.

If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.

Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.

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.

I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria – when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living.

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.

I suppose for a very long time I’ve been trying to understand how it is that people might make sense out of their lives and make meaning and make their lives meaningful in the face of the trouble that life brings.

You’re going to go through tough times – that’s life. But I say, ‚Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.‘ See the positive in negative events.

I used to worry about every little thing, trying to figure out every problem. Well, I realize now how foolish that was. I was no more in control of my life than the man on the moon.

I don’t think I will ever be content. I am somebody who is always hungry.

At 50, I began to know who I was. It was like waking up to myself.

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

Fame may go by and – so long, I’ve had you.