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.

I just always wanted to study human behavior because every psychologist that I would talk to would tell me I was bipolar, and I know I’m not bipolar, so I had to perform a psychoanalysis on myself to find out that I have unresolved grief.

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

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.

The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.

When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.

I think love is one of the purest things you can sing about. One of the best things you can sing about.

I love movement. I love moshing.

Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism. So I distance myself, because I feel everything.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.

I don’t believe you could be a 39-year-old quarterback in the NFL and eat cheeseburgers every day. I want to be able to do what I love to do for a long time.

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

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.

Good governance with good intentions is the hallmark of our government. Implementation with integrity is our core passion.

To do anything to a high level, it has to be total obsession.

The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.

Kissing someone is pretty intimate, actually very intimate, and your heart always kind of skips a beat before you do that.

I do some kind of work, whether writing or painting or recording, on a daily basis. And it’s so essential that when I’m involved in the actual process, my so-called ‚real life‘ becomes almost incidental, which becomes worrying.

If I ever felt like I was getting lost in the hurricane that was storming around Nirvana, I’d just go back to Virginia.

When I’m back in New York – and this is a terrible thing to complain about – I eat a lot more really, really good food than perhaps I’d like to. So many of my friends are really good chefs. It’s kind of like being in the Mafia.

The companies that work are the ones that people really care about and have a vision for the world so do something you like.

It’s probably the worst feeling in the world, when you’re deeply and madly in love with a woman and you know she’s not feeling you the same way, and you don’t know why.

The degree of one’s emotions varies inversely with one’s knowledge of the facts.

Like the experience of warfare, the endurance of grave or terminal illness involves long periods of tedium and anxiety, punctuated by briefer interludes of stark terror and pain.

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

The joy and love that I get from playing football are unbelievable. It is such a feeling that I want to give everything that I have got. I just enjoy it, I am living a life that I never even dreamt of.

If you do things, whether it’s acting or music or painting, do it without fear – that’s my philosophy. Because nobody can arrest you and put you in jail if you paint badly, so there’s nothing to lose.

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

Racing, competing, it’s in my blood. It’s part of me, it’s part of my life; I have been doing it all my life and it stands out above everything else.

I see myself in all the people in the world who are suffering and who are very badly treated and who are often made to feel that they have no place on this Earth.

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.‘

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.

I went through every emotion with tryna pursue what I’m doing, you know what I mean? And I think what’s gon‘ separate whoever’s gon go for something, that you ain’t gon‘ quit.

The day when I am no more than a writer I shall cease to be a writer.

When Clark Gable died, I cried for 2 days straight. I couldn’t eat or sleep.

There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.

If you love something – and there are things that I love – you do want more and more and more of it, but that’s not the way to produce good work.

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.

I kind of love Cole Miller.

Even when a person has all of life’s comforts – good food, good shelter, a companion – he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.

I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery.

You have to understand that people that are hurting are going to criticize.

I don’t know who I would have been if I never watched MotoGP.

The best book, like the best speech, will do it all – make us laugh, think, cry and cheer – preferably in that order.

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery’s shadow or reflection: the fact that you don’t merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.

You will never fulfill your destiny doing work you despise.

And I try to give the best bang for the buck. I love performing more than anything else.

‚Harry Potter‘ gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.

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

I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana’s loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect.

It all went wrong with football, the thing I loved most of all, and from there, my life slowly fell apart.

Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.

I never fall in love.

People think, because we’re young, we aren’t complex, but that’s not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.

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

Love is easy, and I love writing. You can’t resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you’re in love.

History shows us that in times of people feeling like they are in need of some sort of rebellion or protests, the artists rise because the poetry we create about pain and its relationship to culture in the world begins to soothe and heal people who are feeling confused or afraid.

I’m never gonna step away from stand-up. I can’t. That’s what got me where I am, and that’s also my muse. That’s how I stay level-headed. That’s what keeps me going.