My focus is my art, and that’s what I love to do. I have to be really passionate in order to do something. I’ve turned down many things that I just didn’t believe in.

Music comes to me more readily than words.

You want to do good things, and once you’ve done a couple of good things in a row, you think ‚Well gee, let’s not mess this up.‘ But I am lucky at this point that I have something I really love to do, and it completely holds my attention. I never feel frustrated by it.

I’m trying to throw a big broad net to try to get people interested in God and believe that He’s for them and has a purpose.

I don’t believe in an afterlife, so I don’t have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.

Obviously, the cinematography of films is art, just as a still shot can be art. If I’m watching a Wes Anderson movie, the colour palettes alone, and the way they’re painted, could be art. With music, you’re a little bit limited, of course, because it’s only audio.

I don’t think I’ve ever been an agnostic. I’ve always thought there’s a superior power, that this is not the real world and that there’s a world to come.

I have often been asked what I think about at the moment of take-off. Of course, no pilot sits and feels his pulse as he flies. He has to be part of the machine. If he thinks of anything but the task in hand, then trouble is probably just around the corner.

I believe the scripture says that being gay is a sin.

When I look at acting careers that I really admire, I see that it’s been a precise decision-making process for these people. They make decisions based on what they love, and they do only the things that they are passionate about. They play only characters that they can’t stop thinking about.

The design of the Mac wasn’t what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it’s all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it.

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body – the wishbone.

I think being an atheist is something you are, not something you do.

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.

Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story.

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

I am an Addictive Personality, they say, a natural slave to passion – and many Doctors have warned me against it. I am a High-risk Patient.

One word from the Lord is like a piece of gold to a believer, who is like a jeweler, shaping and hammering out the promise for a number of weeks.

The willingness and ability to live fully in the now eludes many people. While eating your appetizer, don’t be concerned with dessert.

I’ve had some ‚riotous excursions of the human spirit‘ alongside the young Sailors and Marines, and it’s time to leave the stage to the young leaders who got their rank the old-fashioned way – they earned their stripes in combat.

I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don’t have as many people who believe it.

Faith… must be enforced by reason… when faith becomes blind it dies.

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

I am Warhol. I am the No. 1 most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh.

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.

I do not think I should care to go on worshipping a Madonna even if she did wink. One cannot make much out of a wink. We want something more than that from the object of our adoration.

Music belongs to the people. To no one else. To no one else.

Don’t be misled by those who claim God doesn’t exist, because He does.

You’ve really got to start hitting the books because it’s no joke out here.

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

I think if I keep working in the way that I am, from the heart and from passion and with love, well, the fruits of that will keep coming.

Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?

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.

Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists.

I didn’t know the term ‚synesthesia‘ until I was working on ‚Cruel Summer.‘ Halfway into writing that, I really understood that, my entire life, I had been trying to describe this condition of mine: through painting, through this seven-screen Surround Vision film we shot in Qatar, through all these things.

I am one of those people who believes that the solution to the world’s problems is to be found behind the Iron Curtain.

Commitment is an act, not a word.

When trouble breaks out, our men and women in uniform, they don’t just sit around thinking about it or talking about it – they act. They put on that uniform. They leave their loved ones behind. They go out there. They give orders. They follow orders. They do whatever it takes to keep our country safe.

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

I like having my hands in the clay. I like the movie-making process.

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I’ll die like a poet.

The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.

It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.

I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.

Beto’s copy of the Bill of Rights goes from one to three. Mine includes the Second Amendment. But there are a whole host of people here in Washington… they would be happy to confiscate America’s guns. And if you don’t believe that, then you probably also still believe in Bigfoot.

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

Since day one, since the first time I touched the pen, I wanted to be the best at what I do.

I just kept touring and touring until it became second nature to go onstage, perform, and sing.

If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.

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

Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them up with great passion. That is because human beings need stories.

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one’s cause.

I don’t think you should spend your life praying for things, but I do believe you should thank God for what He’s given you… but I think the scripture teaches us that we can pray for our dreams, pray for the big things… he’s not a small God; this God is incredible.

If I want to do well in racing I need to be more focused so I stopped going to school. If I wasn’t a very good driver it would not be a wise decision, but it gives me an advantage over my competitors.

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.

I really concentrate on what’s on my plate at the moment and do the very best I can.

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.

We have listened too long to the courtly Muses of Europe.