It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.

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

The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake.

Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I’m fully behind.

My purpose is to make exciting music, and I feel like I’ll be doing that for the rest of my life, so there’s no pressure.

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.

Good governance with good intentions is the hallmark of our government. Implementation with integrity is our core passion.

Nashville is my home, and the reason why I get to do what I love.

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.

See, winners embrace hard work.

Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

You have to stay faithful to what you’re working on.

I’m committed to the fight game.

An artist needn’t be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

Commitment is an act, not a word.

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.

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.

The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love.

Jiro Ono serves Edo-style traditional sushi, the same 20 or 30 pieces he’s been making his whole life, and he’s still unsatisfied with the quality and every day wakes up and trains to make the best. And that is as close to a religious experience in food as one is likely to get.

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

Sincere Christians can disagree about the details of Scripture and theology – absolutely.

I only act from my heart.

Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.

The thing most people don’t pick up when they become an entrepreneur is that it never ends. It’s 24/7.

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.

I would get out of school and go straight to my computer to create beats.

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

Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything. If you don’t write stories you love, you’ll never make it. If you don’t write stories that other people love, you’ll never make it.

My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I’m concerned, love is absolutely everything.

I love singing. I love it, and it doesn’t feel like a chore. It’s an expression.

Puerto Rico’s relationship with music is everything. It’s an island full of talent and if you grow up there, you grow up living and breathing music.

I really love the culture of hip-hop.

Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.

Art is man’s expression of his joy in labor.

The incomparable greatness of the religions of the East lies in their having been second to none in vibrating with the passion for unity. This note, which is essential to every form of mysticism, has even penetrated them so deeply that we find ourselves falling under a spell simply by uttering the names of their Gods.

If this were all to go away tomorrow, all the big success, I would still be very happy going from bar to bar playing music for people.

For me, I don’t want to cheat the game by saying, or kind of doing lip service by saying, I want to be the greatest ever. I want to be able to show it.

Writing’s just as natural to me as getting up and cooking breakfast.

I have done for my country, and for all mankind, all that I could do, and I now resign my soul, without fear, to my God – my daughter to my country.

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

I never wanted to sing. I just wanted to play rhythm guitar – hide in the back and just play.

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.

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

I suppose my best attribute, if you want to call it that, is sincerity. I can sell sincerity because that’s the way I am.

I do some kind of work, whether writing or painting or recording, on a daily basis. And it’s so essential that when I’m involved in the actual process, my so-called ‚real life‘ becomes almost incidental, which becomes worrying.

The companies that work are the ones that people really care about and have a vision for the world so do something you like.

I still love football, though, and I think cooking is like football. It’s not a job, it’s a passion. When you become good at it, it’s a dream job and financially you need never to worry. Ever.

My work as an artist is completely separate from my work as a philanthropist.

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.

I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when I didn’t write. I started again at 16 and have no idea why, but it was suddenly the only thing I wanted to do.

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.

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

I’ve had mixtapes that have been better than albums I’ve heard from other artists. I take my time; I put my heart into it.

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

Rap was my drug.

If you’re a surfer, you just want to surf. You don’t know if anyone’s going to see you, and you don’t really care if they see you. You just live for that feeling.

When you’re one of the leaders of the team, there are no days off.

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

I’m just wanting to make the proper breakfast and keep the house. That’s my passion. At the request of my kids, I’m taking cooking classes. As I go to sleep at night, I think, ‚Did I do a great job as a mom, or was that an average day?‘