It’s in my blood to be around people while I was training.

Learning to live for others isn’t something that just comes naturally to anybody. You have to train yourself to do it.

Art was, seriously, the only thing I’d ever wanted to own. It has always been for me a stable nourishment. I use it. It can change the way that I feel in the mornings.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

As long as I stay in training and play well, I don’t see what objection there can be to what I do off the field.

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

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.

I’ve missed out on a lot of things, going out with friends.

I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my brother, I would write down my thoughts. And I think I wrote some of the worst poetry west of the Rockies. But by the time I was in my 20s, I found myself writing little essays and more poetry – writing at writing.

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

I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when I didn’t write. I started again at 16 and have no idea why, but it was suddenly the only thing I wanted to do.

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans – because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That’s why we paint, that’s why we dare to love someone – because we have the impulse to explain who we are.

Never have we stolen the intelligences of other peoples. On the contrary, in Cuba we have trained tens of thousands of doctors and other top-level professionals, for free, in order to send them back to their own countries.

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.

I like to work.

Sometimes I’ve called writing a disease. If so, I’m glad that it caught me.

I really love training and being in good shape, and it’s so much a part of my life now, so it never really feels like work to me.

I was being trained because I wanted to be a preacher like my father. I wanted to talk about Moses; I wanted to talk about God… I wanted to talk about the apostles, the disciples and all that.

I love story songs because I’ve always loved books.

The Center for Disease Control started out as the malaria war control board based in Atlanta. Partly because the head of Coke had some people out to his plantation, and they got infected with malaria, and partly ‚cause all the military recruits were coming down and having a higher fatality rate from malaria while training than in the field.

I was a sociology major. And it had nothing to do necessarily with law, which is ultimately – I went to law school. But what I tried to do was choose something that I was passionate about or something that I cared about.

Music is really driving my whole life.

Racing, competing, it’s in my blood. It’s part of me, it’s part of my life; I have been doing it all my life and it stands out above everything else.

I wanted very much to learn to draw, for a reason that I kept to myself: I wanted to convey an emotion I have about the beauty of the world.

That’s why I hate to get started in these jam sessions. I’m always the last one to leave.

Refuse to be a lazy Christian, and resist a passive, apathetic attitude.

Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.

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

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.‘

If my films don’t show a profit, I know I’m doing something right.

An artist needn’t be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

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

Because my career is so important, I think I make a lot of – I wouldn’t call them sacrifices, but just concessions for my job. I love what I do, and I want to do it for a long time.

I’m gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell ‚em out of the trunk of my car. I’m that kind of musician and singer.

If you wish to be a writer, write.

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

Starting your own business isn’t just a job – it’s a way of life.

I like being around people.

It doesn’t matter if you want to be a teacher, an astronaut, or a reggaeton singer, you need to study.

I didn’t live at school, I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time. I don’t know anyone from school. I was just leading a different life. I was really interested in writing and other things.

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

Nashville is my home, and the reason why I get to do what I love.

I can get where some scientists would say comedians are crazy. What you have to understand: A lot of comedians are dealing with a dark passion. A lot of these are guys coming from a tumultuous life, including myself. Some people need outlets, a way to express yourself.

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.

Every citizen has the real right to receive general education and professional training at no cost, something that the United States has not been able to ensure for all its inhabitants.

When I was running training, we would fire a couple of leaders from every SEAL team because they couldn’t lead. And 99.9% of the time, it wasn’t a question of their ability – it was a question of their ability to listen.

I really miss being able to blend in with people.

On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.

I’m just wanting to make the proper breakfast and keep the house. That’s my passion. At the request of my kids, I’m taking cooking classes. As I go to sleep at night, I think, ‚Did I do a great job as a mom, or was that an average day?‘

If you have religious faith, very good, you can add on secular ethics, then religious belief, add on it, very good. But even those people who have no interest about religion, okay, it’s not religion, but you can train through education.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

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

If there’s one thing I’m good at, it’s gathering people together to do something fun.

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

There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.

There weren’t a lot of career opportunities in crazy-fast hardcore punk, so you didn’t have a lot of ambition, just the love and passion to play music with your friends.

For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

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

It’s important to love in hip hop.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.