You will never know the feeling of a driver when winning a race. The helmet hides feelings that cannot be understood.

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings – always darker, emptier and simpler.

I’m a songwriter. Everything affects me.

My body is quite tiny, but a lot of the emotions I feel are pretty explosive. They have to come out.

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.

Hence it comes about that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed.

I have no interest in gender or race or anything like that. But everyone else is kind of, with their calculating – is this the exact right mix? I think that’s – to me it’s anti-comedy. It’s more about PC-nonsense.

Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is tired, hurt and bewildered.

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.

Love is not consolation. It is light.

Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.

My role in society, or any artist’s or poet’s role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.

I’m a fighter, I’m a winner, and I’m not interested in just battling my team-mate for the back of the grid.

My biggest competitor was my mum. I used to try to beat her at Chinese chequers, chess, carrom, volleyball, badminton, football, wrestling.

We know that the nation that goes all-in on innovation today will own the global economy tomorrow. This is an edge America cannot surrender.

Some people think literature is high culture and that it should only have a small readership. I don’t think so… I have to compete with popular culture, including TV, magazines, movies and video games.

No driver is perfect.

Kids who have an understanding of how and why their feelings are what they are are much more likely to talk to us about what’s happening, and they have better skills to work it out.

As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher’s mound. It was as if I’d been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.

There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.

We, we – as I say, we go in and shake up other industries and I think, you know, we do it differently and I think that industries are not quite the same as a result of Virgin attacking the market.

Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don’t recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.

Some people feel affronted when something they thought to be true doesn’t happen. If that’s the case, then your sense of risk is much higher, and that leads to risk aversion. You need to be able to be comfortable in uncertainty.

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.

I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.

Hip hop has always been braggin‘ and boasting and ‚I’m better at you than this‘ and ‚I’m better at you than that.‘

There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.

To win a national championship, you’ve got to be a little lucky.

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

Running taught me valuable lessons. In cross-country competition, training counted more than intrinsic ability, and I could compensate for a lack of natural aptitude with diligence and discipline. I applied this in everything I did.

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.

Grief is the price we pay for love.

It’s rule number one, really – beating your teammate.

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.

Most damage that others do us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not just in those of us who profess a certain religious or racial devotion.

My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.

I can be jubilant one moment and pensive the next, and a cloud could go by and make that happen.

The degree of one’s emotions varies inversely with one’s knowledge of the facts.

I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I felt like everyone hated me. That is the most unhappy time of my life.

I was born in Africa. I came to California because it’s really where new technologies can be brought to fruition, and I don’t see a viable competitor.

Above anything else, I hate to lose.

I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.

And were an epitaph to be my story I’d have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.

I don’t know, I feel desperate when I sing. And I look desperate – it feels like I’m singing for my life, which makes me twitch, if that makes sense.

I’ve found that men I’ve dated who are in the same business can be really competitive. I’ve found a great group of girlfriends in the same business who aren’t competitive, but a few times guys have started comparing careers and it has been… challenging.

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

Victory is a fleeting thing in the gambling business. Today’s winners are tomorrow’s blinking toads, dumb beasts with no hope.

If I ever felt like I was getting lost in the hurricane that was storming around Nirvana, I’d just go back to Virginia.

As long as I am playing competitive football I am happy.

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.

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

When I was a teenager, I thought how great it would be if only I could write novels in English. I had the feeling that I would be able to express my emotions so much more directly than if I wrote in Japanese.

We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.

We all die, we all get sick, we all feel hunger and lust and pain, and therefore human life is consistent from one generation to the other. We all – most of us, anyway – want connections with other people and spend our lives looking for them.

Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.