Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.

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.

What I like to do is try to make a difference with the work I do.

I’m just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression.

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.

When even one American – who has done nothing wrong – is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth – then all Americans are in peril.

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.

Above all, always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice committed against anyone, anywhere in the world. This is the most beautiful quality in a revolutionary.

The best football is always about expression of emotion. Always.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Clever tyrants are never punished.

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.

Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?

I love to dance, but my children tell me I shouldn’t. Can’t see why.

Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges – on gifts, trades, loans – and the revenges and insults that come when they are not paid back.

I never had to choose a subject – my subject rather chose me.

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

My mother is a singer, my sisters all sing, my uncles are incredible singers and guitar players, so it’s just kind of been like my habitat.

I don’t profess to have music as my big wheel and there are a number of other things as important to me apart from music. Theatre and mime, for instance.

We want justice, but at the same time, we gotta love and come together and bring unity, and I feel it’s gonna happen.

When I am playing baseball, I give it all that I have on the ball field. When the ball game is over, I certainly don’t take it home. My little girl who is sitting out there wouldn’t know the difference between a third strike and a foul ball. We don’t talk about baseball at home.

It’s in my blood to be around people while I was training.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it.

A precedent embalms a principle.

You want to be a writer? Start writing. You want to be a filmmaker? Start shooting stuff on your phone right now.

Racism is real in this country.

I don’t think that a Justice should have uppermost in her mind, ‚A Democratic president appointed me, so I must leave to be sure that another Democratic president can appoint my successor.‘

I cook, I create, I’m incredibly excited by what I do, I’ve still got a lot to achieve.

Passion is needed for any great work, and for the revolution, passion and audacity are required in big doses.

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my brother, I would write down my thoughts. And I think I wrote some of the worst poetry west of the Rockies. But by the time I was in my 20s, I found myself writing little essays and more poetry – writing at writing.

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.

I had a rough childhood coming up, and I just took all that negative energy and made it very positive for myself to drive me. I’m a very driven person. I have passion that almost scares people, just to be successful and make it no matter what.

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.

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

What I cry out for, like every being, with my whole life and all my earthly passion, is something very different from an equal to cherish: it is a God to adore.

Like my friend Warren Buffett, I feel particularly lucky to do something every day that I love to do. He calls it ‚tap-dancing to work.‘

Sometimes I’ve called writing a disease. If so, I’m glad that it caught me.

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.

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

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

After the chaos and carnage of September 11th, it is not enough to serve our enemies with legal papers.

That old law about ‚an eye for an eye‘ leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.

The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.

It’s hard to tell with these Internet startups if they’re really interested in building companies or if they’re just interested in the money. I can tell you, though: If they don’t really want to build a company, they won’t luck into it. That’s because it’s so hard that if you don’t have a passion, you’ll give up.

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

I want to be the greatest actor that ever lived, frankly. I’d love that. But I don’t need to be. I just want to be here. That’s it.

I think the first duty of society is justice.

I think some of my colleagues‘ spicier lines are distracting. They draw attention away from what the justice is trying to say.

I play piano and ukulele, and I taught myself those things just because I wanted to play them.

We think the Dred Scott decision is erroneous. We know the court that made it has often overruled its own decisions, and we shall do what we can to have it overrule this.

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.

I always have been an activist for things that were just authentically a part of my life, that I felt connected to.

Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.

I wanted very much to learn to draw, for a reason that I kept to myself: I wanted to convey an emotion I have about the beauty of the world.

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.