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

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

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

There has to be something in every role that interests you.

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

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach.

I don’t control my writing – it controls me.

I can understand how some people might resent me for having the audacity to continue playing music, but it’d take a lot more than that to stop me from doing it. I started Foo Fighters because I didn’t want to retreat.

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

Being a stand-up is my mission in life; it’s my passion. My ongoing goal is to simply be funny, on my own, in front of a roomful of strangers.

We want our marriage to be a triumph, not a tragedy.

Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

I like being a writer.

Love can do much, but duty more.

I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when I didn’t write. I started again at 16 and have no idea why, but it was suddenly the only thing I wanted to do.

You don’t come into cooking to get rich.

I wanted to be in a punk band before I had even heard any punk music.

I love that we can trust Barack to do what he says he’s going to do, even when it’s hard – especially when it’s hard.

Driving up the value of the advertising is a big commitment for Microsoft.

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 want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

I worked my face off.

I’m not a writer who teaches. I’m a teacher who writes.

Our work is never over.

I always want to create and do things, or draw.

I was 18 years old, and it was a dream come true for me to work out and eat great food for free. What else do you want in life? People think that is what it is like to be in a SEAL team, but it is less than a fraction of your career as a real SEAL.

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

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.

WWE is a space where I thrived, and I loved, and I still do. I love connecting with an audience; that is the greatest thing about going back to WWE.

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

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

Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.

Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.

There is no such thing as a lovers‘ oath.

It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

When I say I’m going to take care of a woman, I don’t just mean physically or sexually or romantically. I’m going to take care of her emotionally and spiritually. I’m going to take care of her in all ways. I take a lot of pride in that today.

I love performing, you know, because, like I say, I’m a ham for this stuff.

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

I loved what I did. I could’ve been secretary of state for ever.

I like to work.

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

We loved with a love that was more than love.

Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.

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.

I was always interested – I mean, it’s kind of part of your job – I was always interested in the camera.

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

I think every chef, not just in America, but across the world, has a double-edged sword – two jackets, one that’s driven, a self-confessed perfectionist, thoroughbred, hate incompetence and switch off the stove, take off the jacket and become a family man.

If you are born an artist, you have no choice but to fight to stay an artist.

I like entertaining people. I really miss it.

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.

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

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 had a rough childhood coming up, and I just took all that negative energy and made it very positive for myself to drive me. I’m a very driven person. I have passion that almost scares people, just to be successful and make it no matter what.

Mad or glad, Mr. Reagan is head over heels in love with Mrs. Reagan and can’t even imagine a world without her – He loves her.

Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion.

When people say ‚marriage‘ to me… It’s always a means to an end. Everyone’s so in a rush to define the relationship.

Music will never go away, and I will never stop making music; it’s just what capacity or what arena you decide to do it.

People think because I’ve got some success, I’ve made it, but in my eyes it’s like, ‚How long has Jay Z been in the business? How many albums has he got?‘ Not that I’m trying to be Jay Z, but I am trying to be around for a long time.