Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.

God didn’t make me to make movies, flex muscles, buy gold. What you love the most becomes your God… If I never make another dollar, my life is complete.

I stay out of politics because if I begin thinking too much about politics, I’ll probably… drop writing children’s books and become a political cartoonist again.

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.

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

Without football, my life is worth nothing.

I think humans are just hard-wired to process people’s faces and understand meaning and expression at such a more granular level than other types of communication.

And die of nothing but a rage to live.

Writing is like a ‚lust,‘ or like ‚scratching when you itch.‘ Writing comes as a result of a very strong impulse, and when it does come, I, for one, must get it out.

Love is only one of many passions.

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

Pretty much my whole life, I’ve been a performer and have loved singing and writing songs in my room for my own ears.

What the mind doesn’t understand, it worships or fears.

I write for the same reason I breathe – because if I didn’t, I would die.

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man’s actions.

We’re hardwired for connection. There’s no arguing with the bioscience. But we can want it so badly we’re trying to hot-wire it.

You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.

Sure, I can get a little bit jealous. The good part about jealousy is that it comes from passion. It’s also the dangerous part and it’s an ugly emotion that hurts.

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.

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.

Football fans share a universal language that cuts across many cultures and many personality types. A serious football fan is never alone. We are legion, and football is often the only thing we have in common.

It seems to me that terrestrial beings, as they become more autonomous, psychologically richer, shut themselves up in a way against one another, and at the same time gradually become strangers to the cosmic environment and currents, impenetrable to one another, and incapable of exteriorizing themselves.

An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.

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

Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it’s much more serious than that.

Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

Football is unconditional love.

The day when I am no more than a writer I shall cease to be a writer.

People need motivation to do anything. I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation.

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

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.

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

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.

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

God looks after children, animals and idiots.

Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.

I know you’ve heard it a thousand times before. But it’s true – hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it.

I don’t know what acting is, but I enjoy it.

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

All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.

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?‘

The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion.

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.

When you’re around me and really see that all I do is live and breathe for my work, it’s not strange, it’s just Gaga.

I guess you could say it’s always been my destiny to be a performer.

All through my writing life, I’ve had this impulse to write autobiographical works.

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

Stand-up comedy is mine: it’s my entity; it’s my brand; I own it. I do it when I want to do it.

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

Music will never go away, and I will never stop making music; it’s just what capacity or what arena you decide to do it.

Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.

I don’t think there is anything wrong in earning money from the sport you love. If you work hard and get benefits from it, there is no harm. The day you feel that you are not working hard and are only looking at the benefits, that’s where the problem is.

I love making music. That’s what I love to do. So I don’t feel like there’s any need to take a break unless I want to.

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.

One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn’t they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines… There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.

Man is only great when he acts from passion.