The way to know life is to love many things.

Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.

You must keep raising this game to higher and higher levels, as on the pool table – mastering eventually the psychological angles. Your playing is a pleasure, all the way to the end, to death, when the game is over.

I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

There’s no one way to be creative. Any old way will work.

I think any life can be interesting, any surroundings can be interesting. I don’t think I could have been so brave if I had been living in a town, competing with people on what can be called a generally higher cultural level.

I want to thank my Eritrean fans for feeling connected to me and for supporting me. I feel extremely grateful.

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.

Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.

I’ve been afraid of people playing their life away with too many toys.

Everybody’s journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

I just have a thing in my brain that when I’m about to do something that’s genuine or authentic, I think of it in song form. I’ll be like, ‚Yo, this is a human emotion that no one talks about.‘

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you – gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.

There’s love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we’re alone in our heads.

Unless and until you inspire the people, you will not get results. Imposition will never give you the results. Inspiration will always give you the results.

Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive – that you can touch the miracle of being alive – then that is a kind of enlightenment.

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.

My music definitely comes from a place of experience. Everything connects to a truth.

People who don’t like my work say that the connections seem too arbitrary. But that’s how life is.

I only hope that we don’t lose sight of one thing – that it was all started by a mouse.

He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.

I still love football, though, and I think cooking is like football. It’s not a job, it’s a passion. When you become good at it, it’s a dream job and financially you need never to worry. Ever.

I don’t know what acting is, but I enjoy it.

Whenever I’m around some who is modest, I think, ‚Run like hell and all of fire.‘ You don’t want modesty, you want humility.

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

Hope is not a resting place but a starting point – a cactus, not a cushion.

Miracles come in moments. Be ready and willing.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

I cannot remember a moment in my life when I have not felt the love of my family. We were a family that would have killed for each other – and we still are.

You just do what you can and you have as much fun as possible.

God has equipped you to handle difficult things. In fact, He has already planted the seeds of discipline and self-control inside you. You just have to water those seeds with His Word to make them grow!

I kind of love Cole Miller.

Life is a matter of really tough choices.

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

Love is an interesting thing.

Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else’s ideas of who you can or can’t become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a ‚Keep Out‘ sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.

What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

Man’s nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

And you find as a writer there are certain spots on the planet where you write better than others, and I believe in that. And New Orleans is one of them.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

As a songwriter, you respect and appreciate the writings of other people, and I often get asked, are there songs out there I wish I’d written? Yes. There’s many of them!

It feels good to have your work respected again.

Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.

I remember flying in, driving down 101 in a cab, and passing by all these tech companies like Yahoo! I remember thinking, ‚Maybe someday we’ll build a company. This probably isn’t it, but one day we will.‘

To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

I do value the respect I get from my contemporaries, but to have Oasis cover my song, to have Puff Daddy cover a song, to have Goldie come along to my gigs – that’s where my ego is at. To have my fellow musicians like what I do, that’s very cool.

You can never really live anyone else’s life, not even your child’s. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you’ve become yourself.

You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world’s problems at once but don’t ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.