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I would not want to live with a tube in my neck and not be able to move a finger. I wouldn't - that to me is not life.

Do what you feel is right and back yourself up. Live the life you want to live.

I want to be the first player to show what Japanese batters can do in the major league.

I just want to stay in my hotel room, read my book. I enjoy that private time.

I feel like if I show people how good I'm doing with myself, then it'll bring people to want me to manage them as well.

Act the way you WANT to feel.

The pathology is to want control, not that you ever get it, because of course you never do.

Real journalism is publishing something that somebody else does not want published - the rest is just public relations.

Be anything you want to be, but don't be dull.

The certain pathway to all things that you want is through the corridor of joy.

Remember that deciding is not doing, and wanting is not choosing. Transformation will take place not because of what you decide you want, but because of what you choose to do.

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?

I don’t want your candor. I want your soul in a silver thimble.

I always ask God to work through me and let me be a light of some kind and help in this world, so I always pray for that, and I always want to do good.

Jobs are for lazy people who don’t want to invest in themselves.

There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too tough for him, I say, stay in there, I'm not going to let anybody see you.

Today I love you more than ever; tomorrow I will love you even more. I need you more than ever, I want you more than ever.

Faith brings into our lives such freedom, such love, such peace, and such joy that there are no words in any language that can explain it. You have to have it in order to know it. You have to experience it in order to understand it. Faith liberates. It liberates love and hope. If I am free to love and free to hope, what more do I want of life?

Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.

Pretend – inside your skin – you've got a friend, who's willing to give you everything you ever wanted in exchange for all you've ever been.

It's a great time to be a comedian because you've got so much more control. You can say what you want to. I think in the old days with the studio system the performer was a bit of an afterthought. You can be a wildcard on the internet. But if you put something on the internet once it's out there it's out there for life.

Day by day we are given not what we want but what we need. Sometimes it is a feast and sometimes...swept crumbs, but by faith we believe it is enough.

There's a sadness to all kinds of music if you want to hear it. There's also happiness to it if you want to hear it.

If you want to be a writer, write. Write and write and write. If you stop, start again. Save everything that you write. If you feel blocked, write through it until you feel your creative juices flowing again. Write. Writing is what makes a writer, nothing more and nothing less.

Even Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci were entertainers. In that way, I am an entertainer and want to make art that is fun.