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.

Fighting football, not serenity football – that is what I like.

I’ve been writing since I was really young, so I considered myself a writer for a really long time.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

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

The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.

I’ve worked since I was a five-year-old to be a performer.

It’s in my blood to be around people while I was training.

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans – because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That’s why we paint, that’s why we dare to love someone – because we have the impulse to explain who we are.

I love to dance, but my children tell me I shouldn’t. Can’t see why.

Art is man’s expression of his joy in labor.

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

Don’t be a writer; it’s a terrible way to live your life. There’s nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it. But don’t expect anything from anybody.

I’m just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression.

In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

I am prepared to resort to anything, to submit to anything, for the sake of the commonwealth.

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

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

I loved writing for kids, I loved talking to children about what I’d written, I don’t want to leave that behind.

My mom cleaned toilets for a long time, and she’d seen a lot of terrible things, but she was still the strength of our family. And there are women like that all across the country – all around the world – who show that type of fortitude.

I don’t have a vast longing for the stage.

Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.

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 tell people, and it’s the truth, I could sit in my garage for a week and it won’t make me a car. And you can sit in church till your bottom is flat and that won’t make you a servant of Christ.

It’s hard to tell with these Internet startups if they’re really interested in building companies or if they’re just interested in the money. I can tell you, though: If they don’t really want to build a company, they won’t luck into it. That’s because it’s so hard that if you don’t have a passion, you’ll give up.

I am a professional sportswriter, among other things, and I take the games seriously. It is only one of my many powerful addictions, and I don’t mind admitting any of them.

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

I do some kind of work, whether writing or painting or recording, on a daily basis. And it’s so essential that when I’m involved in the actual process, my so-called ‚real life‘ becomes almost incidental, which becomes worrying.

Playing basketball all my life, I’ve collected a lot of different basketball shoes. It’s pretty much all I wear.

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

Man is only great when he acts from passion.

We loved with a love that was more than love.

I would love to sign on to do a movie if it was the right role and if it was the right script, because I would be taking time away from music to tell a big grand story, and spend all of my time and pouring all of my emotions into being someone else. So for me to do that, it would have to be a story worth telling.

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

When you’re one of the leaders of the team, there are no days off.

O, you men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me. You do not know the secret cause which makes me seem that way to you, and I would have ended my life – it was only my art that held me back. Ah, it seemed impossible to leave the world until I had brought forth all that I felt was within me.

I always loved advertising. If I hadn’t been in fashion, I’d have been in advertising.

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it’ll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off.

I’ve always felt toward the slightest scene, even if all I had to do in a scene was just to come in and say, ‚Hi,‘ that the people ought to get their money’s worth and that this is an obligation of mine, to give them the best you can get from me.

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.

Music is really driving my whole life.

You’ve really got to start hitting the books because it’s no joke out here.

As a comedian, I found this thing, this profession, that suits my mind and life force. To drop it to do something else? I just don’t get that.

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.

Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It’s rage, it’s creativity, it’s pain, it’s hurt, but it’s the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.

When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.

Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.

My songs are like my children – I expect them to support me when I’m old.

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.

If I made a commitment, I stood by that commitment – and try to make it real. Because when you become leaders, the most important thing you have is your word, your trust. That’s where respect comes from.

Cardi B put a lot of work in.

A promise must never be broken.

Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

At the age when other children, I imagine, experience their first ‚feeling‘ for a person, or for art, or for religion, I was affectionate, good, and even pious: by that I mean that under the influence of my mother, I was devoted to the Child Jesus.

I love making music. That’s what I love to do. So I don’t feel like there’s any need to take a break unless I want to.

And die of nothing but a rage to live.

The joy and love that I get from playing football are unbelievable. It is such a feeling that I want to give everything that I have got. I just enjoy it, I am living a life that I never even dreamt of.

Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion.

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.