In my early teens, I knew I wanted to do television production. I loved cameras, editing and producing, anything that had to do with television production. My friend had a production studio across town, and we’d go over there at night and shoot and edit. I produced my father’s televised service for 17 years.

I am prepared to resort to anything, to submit to anything, for the sake of the commonwealth.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

The important thing is to be in love with something.

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.

I’m just writing, writing, writing. I keep these tablets on me until I’m inspired to go back in and make the music. I never take a break from my pen, because I pride myself on that.

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?

If you wish to be a writer, write.

Because my career is so important, I think I make a lot of – I wouldn’t call them sacrifices, but just concessions for my job. I love what I do, and I want to do it for a long time.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

I have an immense amount of respect for acting. I’ve always loved movies and was always fascinated by movie-making. But to become an actor, I wanted to commit myself.

Fighting football, not serenity football – that is what I like.

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

The statesman’s duty is to bridge the gap between his nation’s experience and his vision.

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

I love performing, you know, because, like I say, I’m a ham for this stuff.

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.

I have visited Japan several times and have always been shown wonderful hospitality.

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.

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

As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place. Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.

None of my kids want to be actors. They are actually very interested in being musicians. I think they like the process of film from the outside. Mad is interested in editing. Pax loves music and deejaying.

I just want to keep writing music.

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

There’s a gap between what I want to do, what I do on camera, and what gets edited. Right? So the goal is to try and close the gaps. What’s the biggest compliment is if I read a review and it’s exactly what I wrote down in my diary before ever filming it. That’s really cool. That’s the biggest signifier of closing the gaps.

I love tango, and I used to dance when I was young.

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

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’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.

I’m always amazed by the people who work on stage who sing night after night, day after day, week in week out.

I write for myself things that I’ve gone through.

When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.

I don’t know who I would have been if I never watched MotoGP.

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.

Everyone has been in love, at some point or another.

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

As a soccer player, I wanted an FA Cup winner’s medal. As an actor you want an Oscar. As a chef it’s three-Michelin’s stars, there’s no greater than that. So pushing yourself to the extreme creates a lot of pressure and a lot of excitement, and more importantly, it shows on the plate.

All I have to say is basically if performing, singing, acting, and dancing is what you want to do, then you just have to do it – no matter where it is.

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

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

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

I love my job, but it’s more than that: I need it.

My mom cleaned toilets for a long time, and she’d seen a lot of terrible things, but she was still the strength of our family. And there are women like that all across the country – all around the world – who show that type of fortitude.

To the Master’s honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton’s ground.

Once you get on the playing field it’s not about whether you’re liked or not liked. All that matters is to play at a high level and do whatever it takes to help your team win. That’s what it’s about.

The New Testament says nothing of Apostles who retired and took it easy.

People say ‚I want to be rich‘. The question is, ‚Are you willing to do what it takes?‘

As a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, I know that the men and women of our intelligence community put their lives on the line every day, and they do very dangerous work to keep our country safe.

All of the Vines that were acted & setup & had nice cameras, those weren’t the good Vines. The good Vines were, like, a random little kid in the middle of a forest, like, yelling.

I don’t think I’ve ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end. It was as though we knew that once it was out of our hands, it wouldn’t be ours anymore.

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

I am a very emotional guy. What I love, I do with all I have.

I think Himalayan climbers tend to mature fairly late. I think most of the successful Himalayan climbers have ranged from 28 to just over 40, really.

I’ve lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate.

When everything works best, it’s not because you chose writing but because writing chose you. It’s when you’re mad with it, it’s when it’s stuffed in your ears, your nostrils, under your fingernails. It’s when there’s no hope but that.

It seems like when I was growing up there was more compromise, wanting to work with each other, and I think all of them – all of the lawmakers – have hearts to do what’s right, and they all are passionate about it.

There’s been people who’ve rapped and produced – like Kanye – but I don’t feel like on the rapping side there’s ever been a producer who can rap as good as I think I can rap.

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