When I was young I felt really overwhelmed and confused by the desire not to end up in an office, doing something I didn’t believe in.

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

I love football and the intensity of football in Liverpool, this is what is very good for me.

Let’s face it. Umpiring is not an easy or happy way to make a living. In the abuse they suffer, and the pay they get for it, you see an imbalance that can only be explained by their need to stay close to a game they can’t resist.

I have never believed much in luck, and my sense of humor has tended to walk on the dark side.

When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

If you’re going to spend two years of your life on something, it has to matter to you; you have to be passionate about it.

The album requires a certain focus of mine that I can’t really explain – let’s just say it’s all I can really do while I’m doing it.

To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I have not expressed any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren. I have constantly declared, as I really believed, the only difference between them and us is the difference of circumstances.

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.

The youth need to be enabled to become job generators from job seekers.

I go to school the youth to learn the future.

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.

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

The presence of passion within you is the greatest gift you can receive. Treat it as a miracle.

The day when I am no more than a writer I shall cease to be a writer.

Why should I be studying for a future that soon may not exist?

I believe that I’m one of the best in the world at what I do, and that’s all I’ve ever wanted to be.

Has Jesus saved me? I dare not speak with any hesitation here; I know He has. His Word is true; therefore, I am saved.

Why am I here? I’m not lucky. That’s God.

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

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

I want to be the greatest actor that ever lived, frankly. I’d love that. But I don’t need to be. I just want to be here. That’s it.

The best football is always about expression of emotion. Always.

To you I’m an atheist; to God, I’m the Loyal Opposition.

To be renewed is everything. What more could one ask for than to have one’s youth back again?

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

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

Youth is wasted on the young.

Die to everything of yesterday so that your mind is always fresh, always young, innocent, full of vigor and passion.

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

I only act from my heart.

I just was never into performing. It’s just hard work. It’s hard work.

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.

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.

Not only do I not know what’s going on, I wouldn’t know what to do about it if I did.

Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.

God is a great God! I want to encourage you to expect great things from Him.

I did go to Wellesley, a women’s college. And I am of a kind of strange generation which is transitional in terms of women who wanted to go out and get jobs.

Every day that goes by puts us closer to the day when Christ will return.

I really love the culture of hip-hop.

A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.

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’m a working-class person, working with class.

Persuasion is achieved by the speaker’s personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. We believe good men more fully and more readily than others: this is true generally whatever the question is, and absolutely true where exact certainty is impossible and opinions are divided.

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

Oh yes, I love to do shoes. I’m not a fetishist but I love to do shoes.

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.

Music is in my DNA!

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

I don’t believe you could be a 39-year-old quarterback in the NFL and eat cheeseburgers every day. I want to be able to do what I love to do for a long time.

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

I’m proud to be an actor. See, as an actor, you live longer. Football players, the brain and all that stuff, ooh-eee, that’s not good.

If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.

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

The immigration issue is, I recognize, one that generates a lot of passion, but it does not make sense for us to want to push talent out.

Football changed my life and it gave me a platform to get out my aggression and it gave me a sense of value.

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.