WWE is a space where I thrived, and I loved, and I still do. I love connecting with an audience; that is the greatest thing about going back to WWE.

People react to fear, not love; they don’t teach that in Sunday School, but it’s true.

How much better it would be if all could be more aware of God’s providence and love and express that gratitude to Him.

A person once asked me, in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality. I replied with another question: ‚Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?‘ We must always consider the person.

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

Everything I learned I learned from the movies.

I don’t know how to have a normal relationship because I try to act normal and love from a normal place and live a normal life, but there is sort of an abnormal magnifying glass, like telescope lens, on everything that happens.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won’t save us any more than love did.

Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.

I’m a writer first and a singer second.

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 like entertaining people. I really miss it.

What a blast it is to be here with Michael Moore.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

You can always think of something like the Xbox 360 as a super set-top box that can do everything the set-top box does, but then have the graphics to do the games as well.

Whatever possession we gain by our sword cannot be sure or lasting, but the love gained by kindness and moderation is certain and durable.

Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.

I take a lot of pride in the work I do, because people pay to see me. They’ve got to get babysitters, park their car, get popcorn and candy. I’ve got to be conscious of that.

I’m not a film buff. I don’t watch a lot of movies.

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?

I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money, pay for food and put bread on the table.

To be loved is very demoralizing.

Only the really plain people know about love – the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents.

When I worked on a magazine, I learned that there are many, many writers writing that can’t write at all; and they keep on writing all the cliches and bromides and 1890 plots, and poems about Spring and poems about Love, and poems they think are modern because they are done in slang or staccato style, or written with all the ‚i’s‘ small.

I was in Europe and it was at this stage that I fell in love with Americans in uniform. And I continue to have that love affair.

The best book, like the best speech, will do it all – make us laugh, think, cry and cheer – preferably in that order.

My mother was and will always remain my greatest hero.

Any man who doesn’t love his mama can’t be no friend of mine.

People think, because we’re young, we aren’t complex, but that’s not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.

My whole life and my whole career, even through my music, I tell people: let’s unify; let’s show more love.

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature’s gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.

I love singing. I love it, and it doesn’t feel like a chore. It’s an expression.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

Crankiness is at the essence of all comedy. My wife and I were discussing the different types of cranky. There’s entertaining cranky, annoying cranky, angry cranky.

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

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

On a good night, I get underwear, bras, and hotel-room keys thrown onstage… You start to think that you’re Tom Jones.

The only answer to fear is faith in God, knowing He loves you unconditionally and individually.

The most watched programme on the BBC, after the news, is probably ‚Doctor Who.‘ What has happened is that science fiction has been subsumed into modern literature. There are grandparents out there who speak Klingon, who are quite capable of holding down a job. No one would think twice now about a parallel universe.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

As a producer, as a CEO of Hartbeat Productions, I am making deals to put my company in place to win, to put my staff to work so that while all this stuff is going on, they’re in the kitchen cooking. So it’s understanding the longevity of the entertainment business; you get out of it what you put into it.

I think the thing we see is that as people are using video games more, they tend to watch passive TV a bit less. And so using the PC for the Internet, playing video games, is starting to cut into the rather unbelievable amount of time people spend watching TV.

The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.

I never wanted to stay in one genre; I never wanted to be pigeon-holed or defined as the actor who only worked in one genre. I want to be able to work in all different genres. For me it’s fun, and that’s how I grow as an actor.

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

‚Kitchen Confidential‘ wasn’t a cautionary or an expose. I wrote it as an entertainment for New York tri-state area line cooks and restaurant lifers, basically; I had no expectation that it would move as far west as Philadelphia.

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

Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.

When I’m in the studio, I’m looking for creativity I haven’t matched yet, a feeling I haven’t felt. It’s a high.

My mother fought cancer for almost a decade and died at 56. She held out long enough to meet the first of her grandchildren and to hold them in her arms. But my other children will never have the chance to know her and experience how loving and gracious she was.

Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.

I need drama in my life to keep making music.

I love my job, but it’s more than that: I need it.

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

We’re just enthusiastic about what we do.