There’s not much time to unwind, but you know what, it’s because I love what I do. I look forward to the season. I look forward to playing games. It doesn’t ever feel like work.

The incomparable greatness of the religions of the East lies in their having been second to none in vibrating with the passion for unity. This note, which is essential to every form of mysticism, has even penetrated them so deeply that we find ourselves falling under a spell simply by uttering the names of their Gods.

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.

I’m born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.

It doesn’t matter where you come from, what you have or don’t have, what you lack, or what you have too much of. But all you need to have is faith in God, an undying passion for what you do and what you choose to do in this life, and a relentless drive and the will to do whatever it takes to be successful in whatever you put your mind to.

I talk about myself in the third person all the time. I don’t live my life in the way someone like you does. I live my life completely serving only my work and my fans.

The day when I am no more than a writer I shall cease to be a writer.

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

As a comedian, I found this thing, this profession, that suits my mind and life force. To drop it to do something else? I just don’t get that.

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

In my heart, I am always a Raider.

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.

I’m in awe of the universe, but I don’t necessarily believe there’s an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic.

Die to everything of yesterday so that your mind is always fresh, always young, innocent, full of vigor and passion.

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.

If you are working 50 hours a week in a factory, you don’t have time to read 10 newspapers a day and go back to declassified government archives. But such people may have far-reaching insights into the way the world works.

Fun is one of the most important – and underrated – ingredients in any successful venture. If you’re not having fun, then it’s probably time to call it quits and try something else.

After getting out of the service and going into baseball I never wanted to do anything else.

I mean, if you didn’t get it or if you didn’t feel like you enjoyed it, sometimes that experience can change.

I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn’t think I could do anything else. So I read and read and wrote short stories and dreamed of escape.

I think a certain amount of stress in life is good. The stress of just working, which takes effort – I think it keeps you going.

I don’t travel with them, but they can’t be missing in my home. There have to always be dominoes… I used to play with my family – dad, my grandpa, my uncles.

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

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake.

We’re just enthusiastic about what we do.

I really love the culture of hip-hop.

My work and my family are very important to me.

Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

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.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

If you’re a surfer, you just want to surf. You don’t know if anyone’s going to see you, and you don’t really care if they see you. You just live for that feeling.

All the top players in the world play 45-50-60 games. You need that many games, even the strikers need that many games.

You reach a point where you don’t work for money.

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

It was a personal decision for me to stand and say that cricket is all I have in life, there’s nothing I need to do other than cricket. If I want to achieve whatever I thought as a kid, I need to work hard and not let it go to waste.

I’ve learned over the years that when I go to that place of passion within me, there’s no force in the universe that can interfere with my completing a project.

If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don’t stop, don’t put it down.

Football is unconditional love.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern… No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.

Let me define a leader. He must have vision and passion and not be afraid of any problem. Instead, he should know how to defeat it. Most importantly, he must work with integrity.

I’m wallowing in the whole idea of just being a guy out there with a band, with songs. It’s a real enjoyment.

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

I don’t know what acting is, but I enjoy it.

I just enjoy it, I am living a life that I never even dreamt of.

I just want to keep writing music.

I only act from my heart.

I love being on stage, I love being able to tell a story, I love the fact that the audience listens and laughs at it. It makes me happy, and it’s what I live for.

On ‚Grey’s Anatomy‘ I wouldn’t care what I was playing – I would play a corpse, ‚cause I love it that much. It is deep true love, and it will never die.

I would get out of school and go straight to my computer to create beats.

If it’s good music, it’s good music.

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

I had a good time boxing. I enjoyed it – and I may come back.

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

The intensity of the football and how the people live football in Liverpool – it is not a usual.

Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion.

My mother is a singer, my sisters all sing, my uncles are incredible singers and guitar players, so it’s just kind of been like my habitat.