The only thing I understand deeply, because in my teens I was thinking about it, and every year of my life, is software. So I’ll never be hands-on on anything except software.

I believe enlightenment or revelation comes in daily life. I look for joy, the peace of action. You need action. I’d have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

I worked my face off.

To not follow your passion in life is a recipe for failure and unhappiness.

The album requires a certain focus of mine that I can’t really explain – let’s just say it’s all I can really do while I’m doing it.

You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.

The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.

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

O, you men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me. You do not know the secret cause which makes me seem that way to you, and I would have ended my life – it was only my art that held me back. Ah, it seemed impossible to leave the world until I had brought forth all that I felt was within me.

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

All I do is work out. Oh my God! Half my life is spent in a gym somewhere, sweating.

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

I’m just writing, writing, writing. I keep these tablets on me until I’m inspired to go back in and make the music. I never take a break from my pen, because I pride myself on that.

If a leader doesn’t convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they’ll start to fall down and get depressed.

I’ve sat in sushi bars, really fine ones, and I know how hard this guy worked, how proud he is. I know you don’t need sauce. I know he doesn’t even want you to pour sauce. And I’ve seen customers come in and do that, and I’ve seen him, as stoic as he tries to remain, I’ve seen him die a little inside.

I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughout all my life and with all my heart I shall strive to be worthy of your trust.

When a person starts to talk about their dreams, it’s as if something bubbles up from within. Their eyes brighten, their face glows, and you can feel the excitement in their words.

It’s hard work making movies. It’s like being a doctor: you work long hours, very hard hours, and it’s emotional, tense work. If you don’t really love it, then it ain’t worth it.

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

An artist needn’t be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

We’re just enthusiastic about what we do.

The Sisters of Notre Dame at St. Aloysius Grade School influenced my life tremendously. This was due to the fact that they encouraged you always to make sure that God is the focus of your life, and they didn’t allow you to do anything except to the very best of your ability.

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

The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.

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.

Those who know me know I’m passionate about lists, and top of my list of priorities is my family. My wife Joan and I do not consider our legacy to our children to be wealth or fame but the opportunity to pursue happiness by following their own path.

I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever – was write novels.

Just like every person who works for Dortmund is a fan of the club, it was the same at Mainz. When I was a player there, we had 800 supporters on rainy Saturday afternoons, and if we died, no one would notice or come to our funeral. But we loved the club, and we have this same feeling at Dortmund.

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.

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

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it.

There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.

If you ask the CEO of some major corporation what he does, he will say, in all honesty, that he is slaving 20 hours a day to provide his customers with the best goods or services he can and creating the best possible working conditions for his employees.

All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.

The New Testament says nothing of Apostles who retired and took it easy.

It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.

I get really motivated when I put on the India jersey. It is a responsibility, so I want to perform in the best way I can.

The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every calling, is diligence.

When I was young I felt really overwhelmed and confused by the desire not to end up in an office, doing something I didn’t believe in.

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.

I don’t have a vast longing for the stage.

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

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

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.

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

I don’t intend to stop making music.

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

Cooking is about passion, so it may look slightly temperamental in a way that it’s too assertive to the naked eye.

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

I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.

It’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman’s heart.

A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.

I’m sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn’t on our radar screen. We were just making great software.

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

Man lives for science as well as bread.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

My songs are like my children – I expect them to support me when I’m old.

Hip-hop saved my life, man. It’s the only thing I’ve ever been even decent at. I don’t know how to do anything else.

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

Irrespective of whether you have talent or not, one has to work hard. Just being talented doesn’t mean anything; you can end up wasting it before you realize.