Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.

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’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?‘

It’s very fun to be the hunter of the sounds. The hunter of the right energy. And it’s not really about if every sound is correct; it’s more the energy – if it hits you in some way, it doesn’t really matter to me if it’s not perfect. I’m still very excited while hunting for songs.

I do my job like I breathe.

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

There are many things I do where the centre of it is… It’s almost more my humanitarian work than art.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

I guess, taking away all the theatrics or the costuming and the outer layers of what I do, I’m a writer… I write.

If I could, I would not do anything else. I’d just be in the studio for my whole life. I would never go to parties, events, and red carpets. I would rather just be in the studio for the whole time. I don’t even care. Nobody has to know what I look like. I just want to make music.

My first popular book, ‚A Brief History of Time,‘ aroused a great deal of interest, but many found it difficult to understand.

Ever since Newton, we’ve done science by taking things apart to see how they work. What the computer enables us to do is to put things together to see how they work: we’re now synthesized rather than analysed. I find one of the most enthralling aspects of computers is limitless communication.

Order is heaven’s first law.

I believe that I’m one of the best in the world at what I do, and that’s all I’ve ever wanted to be.

I didn’t live at school, I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time. I don’t know anyone from school. I was just leading a different life. I was really interested in writing and other things.

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.

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

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

It is a curious thing: man, the centre and creator of all science, is the only object which our science has not yet succeeded in including in a homogeneous representation of the universe. We know the history of his bones, but no ordered place has yet been found in nature for his reflective intelligence.

The reason children accept discipline from their parents is because they know their parents love them.

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

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

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.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

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

I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws.

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 was never interested in being powerful or famous. But once I got to film school and learned about movies, I just fell in love with it. I didn’t care what kind of movies I made.

The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

The guerrilla fighters should be required to go to bed and get up at fixed hours. Games that have no social function and that hurt the morale of the troops and the consumption of alcoholic drinks should both be prohibited.

I am completely fascinated by the differences and comparisons between real life and fairy tales because we’re raised as little girls to think that we’re a princess and that Prince Charming is going to sweep us off our feet.

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.

Show me a poorly uniformed troop and I’ll show you a poorly uniformed leader.

It doesn’t matter where you come from, what you have or don’t have, what you lack, or what you have too much of. But all you need to have is faith in God, an undying passion for what you do and what you choose to do in this life, and a relentless drive and the will to do whatever it takes to be successful in whatever you put your mind to.

To be honest with you, when I got into this I never thought about reviews. I never thought about what people would say about me. I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.

If I didn’t have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up.

Basically, I live to do gigs.

The army teaches boys to think like men.

We don’t make music – it makes us.

I was always interested in choreography – in making people think and feel something.

Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am.

Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.

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.

Art is not a thing; it is a way.

I don’t have to ‚freedom-kiss‘ my wife when what I really want to do is French-kiss her.

From the boys‘ point of view, scouting puts them into fraternity-gangs, which is their natural organisation, whether for games, mischief, or loafing; it gives them a smart dress and equipments; it appeals to their imagination and romance; and it engages them in an active, open-air life.

Science and mindfulness complement each other in helping people to eat well and maintain their health and well-being.

I didn’t want to be a fashion designer, and for a good half of my career I didn’t like it. I always wanted to do other things.

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

Young love is wild and outrageous, laughing at moderation and blinding us to common sense.

I’m never going to go to Mars, but I’ve helped inspire, thank goodness, the people who built the rockets and sent our photographic equipment off to Mars.

I like entertaining people. I really miss it.

Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.

Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn’t write, I would stop breathing.