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.

I’ve learned over the years that when I go to that place of passion within me, there’s no force in the universe that can interfere with my completing a project.

Where would I be without baseball? Who am I without baseball?

Passion is needed for any great work, and for the revolution, passion and audacity are required in big doses.

Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I’m fully behind.

I do think coaches need to get away from the game more, though. It’s good for them.

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.

I got my buzz from playing.

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.

One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.

A man’s delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

I love everything about my job, except being away from the kids.

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.

I feel like people can relate to me because we all go through wins and roadblocks and passion and pain, and it’s a vibe.

Many people have an intense feeling about what they’re best at. Too often, they’re driven away from it by other people.

Why should I stop working? If I do, I’ll die and it’ll all be finished.

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.

I was a sociology major. And it had nothing to do necessarily with law, which is ultimately – I went to law school. But what I tried to do was choose something that I was passionate about or something that I cared about.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

A career is wonderful, but you can’t curl up with it on a cold night.

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.

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

I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it?

Pretty much my whole life, I’ve been a performer and have loved singing and writing songs in my room for my own ears.

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

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I’ll die like a poet.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

My focus is my art, and that’s what I love to do. I have to be really passionate in order to do something. I’ve turned down many things that I just didn’t believe in.

Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

I stay out of politics because if I begin thinking too much about politics, I’ll probably… drop writing children’s books and become a political cartoonist again.

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.

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

More and more people work on Sundays as a consequence of the competitiveness imposed by a consumer society.

Starting your own business isn’t just a job – it’s a way of life.

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

The things that transfixed you as a child, that you found most exciting was not a passing fancy, but a message about what you’re supposed to do.

If you’re working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.

I never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.

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

Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

When I’m writing, I don’t feel neurotic. So it’s better for the family if I’m working.

It’s a real strength for me that I’ve never minded the training process. It’s something I enjoy. I really like being in the gym or, certainly, on the field.

Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.

Players today moan about the number of games, but when you’re young, you can’t play enough.

I like surprises.

I love being busy.

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success… such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

If this were all to go away tomorrow, all the big success, I would still be very happy going from bar to bar playing music for people.

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

I am an Addictive Personality, they say, a natural slave to passion – and many Doctors have warned me against it. I am a High-risk Patient.

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

I could not do what I do, and teach a class, and never miss a deadline, never be late for anything if I was a lush, OK? I would really love to read a piece that said, ‚He is not a lush.‘ That would be fabulous, it would be a first, I could show it to people and say, ‚Look!‘

Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it’s on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you’ve got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.

No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it’s in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.

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

I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn’t think I could do anything else. So I read and read and wrote short stories and dreamed of escape.

It was a personal decision for me to stand and say that cricket is all I have in life, there’s nothing I need to do other than cricket. If I want to achieve whatever I thought as a kid, I need to work hard and not let it go to waste.

It doesn’t matter if you want to be a teacher, an astronaut, or a reggaeton singer, you need to study.

When you’re a chef, you graze. You never get a chance to sit down and eat. They don’t actually sit down and eat before you cook. So when I finish work, the first thing I’ll do, and especially when I’m in New York, I’ll go for a run. And I’ll run 10 or 15k on my – and I run to gain my appetite.