Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.

I don’t want to say anything negative about anybody or anything or anybody’s political beliefs. I’ve never done that. I’ve never tried to get involved in those things.

My music will go on forever. Maybe it’s a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.

I guess you could say it’s always been my destiny to be a performer.

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.

Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.

In hip-hop, there’s not a lot of love. There’s not a lot of love being spread. It’s always like ‚I’m stuntin‘ on you raps, or I’m better than you raps.‘ It’s not a lot of ‚Yo man, I idolize you raps.‘

I think if I keep working in the way that I am, from the heart and from passion and with love, well, the fruits of that will keep coming.

For me, it’s about becoming a mogul, owning my own projects, and establishing myself as a funding producer. That’s what’s big to me. The movies and all that stuff are great, but the fact that I’m in a position to do what I want to do, however I want to do it and when I want to do it is bigger.

If a leader doesn’t convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they’ll start to fall down and get depressed.

Where would I be without baseball? Who am I without baseball?

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

You want to do good things, and once you’ve done a couple of good things in a row, you think ‚Well gee, let’s not mess this up.‘ But I am lucky at this point that I have something I really love to do, and it completely holds my attention. I never feel frustrated by it.

Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.

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

The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.

In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you’ve become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that’s the height of intelligence.

You gotta understand: I believe a woman should praise the man, the king. If you holding it down for your woman, I feel like the woman should praise. And the man should praise the queen.

I listen to music all day every day. I can’t not listen to music. It’s kind of scary how much I listen to music, but it’s what I love, and it’s all I care about, so I’m good with it.

I treated it like every day was my last day with a basketball.

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

I’ve never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves – it’s just a question of finding the subject.

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.

Stand-up comedy is mine: it’s my entity; it’s my brand; I own it. I do it when I want to do it.

If I could, I would not do anything else. I’d just be in the studio for my whole life. I would never go to parties, events, and red carpets. I would rather just be in the studio for the whole time. I don’t even care. Nobody has to know what I look like. I just want to make music.

All I have to say is basically if performing, singing, acting, and dancing is what you want to do, then you just have to do it – no matter where it is.

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

At the end of the day, we started playing football because we loved it.

I believe enlightenment or revelation comes in daily life. I look for joy, the peace of action. You need action. I’d have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn’t much. But the things that I’m really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I’m not successful, what do I have?

Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.

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.

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

I always thought about working in England because of the kind of football, the intensity of football. Liverpool was first choice.

Young men, trust God, and make the future bright with blessing. Old men, trust God, and magnify him for all the mercies of the past.

It is right to give every man his due.

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.

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.

I’m a writer first and a singer second.

To be honest, I never really considered myself to be too much of an actress. So, whenever I get the chance to do music, I’m always, like, just in it. It’s like, ‚Oh my God, I finally get to do this. I’m so happy.‘

My dream is to continue filming until my body tells me to stop.

When I’m really interested in something, I get superfocused on that. And I can spend hours upon hours not getting tired of reading about it and still be interested to learn more about it.

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.

Let’s be very clear: Strong men – men who are truly role models – don’t need to put down women to make themselves feel powerful. People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.

I loved what I did. I could’ve been secretary of state for ever.

Many people have an intense feeling about what they’re best at. Too often, they’re driven away from it by other people.

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

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

We learned about gratitude and humility – that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean… and we were taught to value everyone’s contribution and treat everyone with respect.

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.

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

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.