When I’m in meetings until 5am and then have to get up two hours later for filming, sometimes I ask myself ‚why?‘

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

At the end of the day, the TV show is the best job in the world. I get to go anywhere I want, eat and drink whatever I want. As long as I just babble at the camera, other people will pay for it. It’s a gift.

Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.

Wherever the enemy wants to fight, we will follow him to the ends of the Earth. We’ll adapt, we’ll train, we’ll advise, we’ll mentor, and we’ll fight, and we’ll fight well.

I train and I go home, and when I’m home, I think about training. That’s my life every day, and that’s it.

As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you’re going to be a second-rate artist.

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.

Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success… such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

I just hope people don’t get sick of us. I’m sick of us and I’m in Destiny’s Child.

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one’s own religion.

There are different ways to do innovation. You can plant a lot of seeds, not be committed to any particular one of them, but just see what grows. And this really isn’t how we’ve approached this. We go mission-first, then focus on the pieces we need and go deep on them and be committed to them.

No man wants to settle down. It happens. Eventually you’re going to bump into somebody that makes you go, ‚Hmm, I don’t mind seeing this person every day.‘

Over the course of my career in law enforcement, I have witnessed over and over again the selflessness and sacrifice of law enforcement who lay their lives on the line every day to protect people who they will never meet and people who will never know their names.

All I do is work out. Oh my God! Half my life is spent in a gym somewhere, sweating.

Irrespective of whether you have talent or not, one has to work hard. Just being talented doesn’t mean anything; you can end up wasting it before you realize.

You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

I don’t do meetings.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

You can scream at me, call me for a shoot at midnight, keep me waiting for hours – as long as what ends up on the screen is perfect.

There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life’s July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.

When I was in my 40s, Microsoft was my primary activity.

Writing is my love. If you love something, you find a lot of time. I write for two hours a day, usually starting at midnight; at times, I start at 11.

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

It is not more vacation we need – it is more vocation.

We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it.

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

So many writers don’t like to write… I like to write, and sometimes I’m afraid I like it too much, because when I get into work, I don’t want to leave it. And as a result, I’ll go for days and days and days without leaving my house.

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.

I could not do what I do, and teach a class, and never miss a deadline, never be late for anything if I was a lush, OK? I would really love to read a piece that said, ‚He is not a lush.‘ That would be fabulous, it would be a first, I could show it to people and say, ‚Look!‘

Marriage is scary to me, man.

Marriage is the death of hope.

The challenge of work-life balance is without question one of the most significant struggles faced by modern man.

I haven’t been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.

I write books back to back, and I work very hard on them.

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.

I have done for my country, and for all mankind, all that I could do, and I now resign my soul, without fear, to my God – my daughter to my country.

There’s a big difference between falling in love with someone and falling in love with someone and getting married. Usually, after you get married, you fall in love with the person even more.

Cleveland fans are awesome.

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable… Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

I’d like to dial it back 5% or 10% and try to have a vacation that’s not just e-mail with a view.

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

I worked my face off.

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.

I do my job like I breathe.

When a father puts in long hours at work, he’s praised for being dedicated and ambitious. But when a mother stays late at the office, she’s sometimes accused of being selfish, neglecting her kids.

Democracy is our commitment. It is our great legacy, a legacy we simply cannot compromise. Democracy is in our DNA.

No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it’s in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.

It’s the philosophies of being an athlete that carry me today.

Whatever you want to do, do with full passion and work really hard towards it. Don’t look anywhere else. There will be a few distractions, but if you can be true to yourself, you will be successful for sure.

‚9 to 5,‘ that little song, that little story, just won’t ever end. Just like ‚I Will Always Love You,‘ it just keeps comin‘ back, popping up its head in one way or another.

I have promised myself that I’m going to do everything I can for as long as I can.

As long as I am alive, I am fully committed to amity between Tibetans and Chinese. Otherwise there’s no use.

President Assad, I worked with. I know him reasonably well, met with him a few times, and he’s a liar.

If you try and work out at 4:30 in the afternoon, how many people are going to chip away at that time? Your boss, your job, your work, your family, your other obligations that you might have. At 4:30 in the morning, all those people are asleep, so you can do whatever you want.

Our work is never over.

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.