I have been very fortunate to have been able to make a living from what I love to do best - performing and singing for people.

I think if you have a passion for what you do then there are no limitations on how long or how much you can accomplish.

I have an awful lot to learn. My dream is to get better and better as I get older.

I've taken stuff from people, too. You know though, if you steal from one person, you're just a thief. But if you steal from everyone, that's research.

If you follow your passion, you'll never work a day in your life.

Someday, when I'm awfully low, and the world is cold, I will feel a glow just thinking of you, and the way you look tonight.

To work is to feel alive.

"Benedetto" means the "blessed one" and I feel that I have truly been blessed.

When the uncreative tell the creative what to do, it stops being art.

My goal as a creative person is to express truth and beauty in whatever I do

I can't ask for more out of life, and the more I learn, the less I know.

Hope is being confident of what we do not seen.

If you are serious about your goals and you truly desire to achieve your dreams, you must write them down.

Only drug dealers and software companies call their customers 'users'

There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery.

A penguin cannot become a giraffe, so just be the best penguin you can be.

Things are going great in every part of my life except movies. That's okay. I've got a lot of other parts of my life. I've made 15 movies. You can see any one of my movies and it says the same thing.

The only thing that works with writing is that you care so passionately about it yourself, that you make someone else care passionately about it.

More knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with one of his servants than from a formal and studied narrative, begun with his pedigree and ended with his funeral.

I don't think there's a lot of carry-over from year to year. I don't think anybody cares what you did the year before.

Many people find themselves with illness as they become successful: higher blood pressure and diabetes.