We should play free football, defend lively with a passion, and have the best understanding in offence.

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.

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

Those who have a true understanding of America know that we have no desire for territorial expansion, for economic or other domination of other peoples. Such purposes are repugnant to our ideals of human freedom.

I always thought about working in England because of the kind of football, the intensity of football. Liverpool was first choice.

Nothing is stopping me from doing what I love to do.

I’ve been writing my entire life, and I’ll always write.

I never had to choose a subject – my subject rather chose me.

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

I think, generally, I just cannot really envision life without writing and producing records and singing.

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

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

I just think that trusting God means we’re going to have unanswered questions, and God is so much bigger than us, we’re never going to understand them all.

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.

I’ve never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves – it’s just a question of finding the subject.

One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

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

Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.

There are very few people who really appreciate my shows. People come to the show and they pay and they enjoy it, but I don’t really think most people really understand what they’ve seen.

Football in itself is a grand game for developing a lad physically and also morally, for he learns to play with good temper and unselfishness, to play in his place and ‚play the game,‘ and these are the best of training for any game of life.

Me is a common sense man. That mean when me explain things, me explain it in a very simple way; that mean if I explain it to a baby, the baby will understand too, you know.

Each day we understand better what the Indians say, and they us, so that very often we are intelligible to each other.

Music helps me tell my story. That’s where I can really be heard. But there’s so much focus on the things that aren’t music.

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

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

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.

If I am a cup maker, I’m interested in making the best cup I possibly can. My effort goes into that cup, not what people think about it.

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place. Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.

For me, it’s about becoming a mogul, owning my own projects, and establishing myself as a funding producer. That’s what’s big to me. The movies and all that stuff are great, but the fact that I’m in a position to do what I want to do, however I want to do it and when I want to do it is bigger.

Getting a great idea with song writing is a lot like love. You don’t know why this one is different, but it is. You don’t know why this one is better, but it is. It sticks in your head, and you can’t stop thinking about it.

I cook, I create, I’m incredibly excited by what I do, I’ve still got a lot to achieve.

People are already finding ways to make their music and play it in front of people and have a life in music, I guess, and I think that’s pretty much all you can ask.

To be honest, there are no problems between me and Messi. People have their own opinions about who they think is the better player. It is what it is, but there is no rivalry beyond games and what happens on the pitch.

To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people.

To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.

There are folks who now know black families – like the Johnsons on ‚Black-ish‘ or the folks on ‚Modern Family.‘ They become part of who you are. You share their pains. You understand their fears. They make you laugh, and they change how you see the world.

You pity the fool because you don’t want to beat up a fool! You know, pity is between sorry and mercy. See, if you pity him, you know, you won’t have to beat him up. So that’s why I say fools, you gotta give another chance because they don’t know no better. That’s why I pity them!

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

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

Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.

My passion is bringing storylines around and constructing a full body of work rather than just a 16-bar verse.

I am happy and proud to play for my country and my club Mohun Bagan.

If Tiger Woods had played football, he would have been a quarterback.

I just know that I’m a fan of all different kinds of genres. You’re supposed to be free doing music, and that’s how I feel.

I love to take, process and share photos – it fills me up.

Read with care, George Orwell’s diaries, from the years 1931 to 1949, can greatly enrich our understanding of how Orwell transmuted the raw material of everyday experience into some of his best-known novels and polemics.

The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.

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.

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

Football is big business – you can’t get away from it. But you have to separate that side from the playing.

Strong emotions such as passion and bliss are indications that you’re connected to Spirit, or ‚inspired,‘ if you will. When you’re inspired, you activate dormant forces, and the abundance you seek in any form comes streaming into your life.

I believe in singing.

Education is hanging around until you’ve caught on.

If… many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made.

Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.

The law is reason, free from passion.

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