What I like to do is try to make a difference with the work I do.

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.

I think New York has evolved in my work just the way the city has.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

I know I’m talented, but I wasn’t put here to sing. I was put here to be a wife and a mom and look after my family. I love what I do, but it’s not where it begins and ends.

I think if I keep working in the way that I am, from the heart and from passion and with love, well, the fruits of that will keep coming.

It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.

Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

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.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

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

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

The multiplication force of technology on cognitive differences is massive.

The next time someone tells you we can trim the budget by cutting aid, I hope you will ask whether it will come at the cost of more people dying.

My audience went, ‚Wait, why is she singing jazz? What’s going on?‘ And then they went, ‚Oh, because she can. Because she loves it.‘ And jazz, a music invented by the African-American community, is the greatest art form, I believe, to have ever come out of this country.

When Paul Allen and I started Microsoft over 30 years ago, we had big dreams about software. We had dreams about the impact it could have.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

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 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.

We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power. But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary. So long as our being is tensed, directed with passion, towards that which is the spirit of all things, then that spirit will emerge from our own hidden, nameless effort.

I wanted very much to learn to draw, for a reason that I kept to myself: I wanted to convey an emotion I have about the beauty of the world.

Suppose I criticise Iran. What impact does that have? The only impact it has is in fortifying those who want to carry out policies I don’t agree with, like bombing.

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.

I am in the fighting game. I don’t care about anything else. I don’t watch the news, I don’t care about politics, I don’t care about other sports. I don’t care about anything I don’t need to care about. This is my sport: it is my life. I study it; I think about it all the time. Nothing else matters.

God didn’t make me to make movies, flex muscles, buy gold. What you love the most becomes your God… If I never make another dollar, my life is complete.

What is Apple, after all? Apple is about people who think ‚outside the box,‘ people who want to use computers to help them change the world, to help them create things that make a difference, and not just to get a job done.

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 think television has had a vast, unbelievable impact on us.

Some people wonder all their lives if they’ve made a difference. The Marines don’t have that problem.

I believe that one person can make a difference.

We love things we love what they are.

My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I’m concerned, love is absolutely everything.

An artist or a creative person of any kind goes about their work because it’s their path, it’s what excites them, it’s what aligns their soul with who they truly are, who they showed up to be.

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

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

I believe in a passion for inclusion.

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 started out as a poet. I’ve always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels.

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little – somebody who is obsessed by Making.

I worked at the Steel Company Of Wales when I was 17. My job was to supply tools to the guys working the blast furnaces.

World War II broke out in 1939, and many people credit that war with saving the economy.

The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.

I only act from my heart.

The day I think I’m not enjoying the game and contributing the way I would like to, I’ll hang up my boots.

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.

Football fans share a universal language that cuts across many cultures and many personality types. A serious football fan is never alone. We are legion, and football is often the only thing we have in common.

Music is really driving my whole life.

We’re going to have to work. We’re going to have to play well. Nothing will be given to us.

Stand-up comedy is mine: it’s my entity; it’s my brand; I own it. I do it when I want to do it.

The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years.

It seems like when I was growing up there was more compromise, wanting to work with each other, and I think all of them – all of the lawmakers – have hearts to do what’s right, and they all are passionate about it.

Work is making a living out of being bored.

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror, the digital revolution, and what we did – or did not do – to put the fire out in Africa. History, like God, is watching what we do.

In my early teens, I knew I wanted to do television production. I loved cameras, editing and producing, anything that had to do with television production. My friend had a production studio across town, and we’d go over there at night and shoot and edit. I produced my father’s televised service for 17 years.

I love being in a courtroom.

Next to religion, baseball has had a greater impact on our American way of life than any other American institution.

I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.