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

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.

I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.

If we’re really honest with ourselves, most of us will admit that we want to impress people, and this is what’s causing us to do what we do.

The intensity of the football and how the people live football in Liverpool – it is not a usual.

The secret is not to give up hope. It’s very hard not to because if you’re really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

There is no man on Earth or devil in Hell who can keep you from the very best God put in you.

There have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to live? What’s the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future? If the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multi-planet species, I find that incredibly depressing.

After all, life hasn’t much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.

All I ever wanted to do with my life was own a little house. I did that way back with ‚Rocky,‘ so now everything I do is just icing on the cake.

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.

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

If you keep proving stuff that others have done, getting confidence, increasing the complexities of your solutions – for the fun of it – then one day you’ll turn around and discover that nobody actually did that one!

Writing and cafes are strongly linked in my brain.

There’s not much time to unwind, but you know what, it’s because I love what I do. I look forward to the season. I look forward to playing games. It doesn’t ever feel like work.

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.

You have to be smart. The easy days are over.

In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can’t read. If they could read their stuff, they’d stop writing.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.

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.

The first story I finished was when I was six years old.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

You can’t hire someone to practice for you.

That feeling is so intoxicating, walking off the court holding the Larry O’Brien trophy. So I just want to do that again.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

You cannot let where you are today cause you to get stuck. I’m going to be my best right now. That’s what faith is all about.

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

Why don’t you start believing that no matter what you have or haven’t done, that your best days are still out in front of you.

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

Just try new things. Don’t be afraid. Step out of your comfort zones and soar, all right?

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.

I have my favorite cat, who is my paperweight, on my desk while I am writing.

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.

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don’t know if it’s possible forever and ever.

If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married.

Opportunity makes a thief.

Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.

I just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say.

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

We were never intimate mother and children while she was our mother – but… when she became our child, the affection came.

A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.

Courage – you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn’t want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself.

Let us be shy no longer. Let us go to our strength. Let us offer hope. Let us tell the world that a new age is not only possible but probable.

When I’m in the studio, I’m looking for creativity I haven’t matched yet, a feeling I haven’t felt. It’s a high.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

When I’m getting to know someone, I look for someone who has passions that I respect, like his career. Someone who loves what he does is really attractive.

This is love: the flowering of love is meditation.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

If you’ve got a talent, protect it.

Don’t grow accustomed to living with less, doing less, and being less to the point that you eventually sit back and accept it.