Curb Your Enthusiasm set me up so perfectly. That was one of my favorite shows before I got on it. That started a whole different level of a story for me. I didn’t know how to process it until after I got on the show and realized what the purpose of it was.

If I had signed my fourth season of SNL, I wouldn’t have ever had the opportunity to do Curb Your Enthusiasm. If my buddy OG Pearson wouldn’t have passed away, I wouldn’t have been in L.A. for his memorial, and I would’ve never auditioned for Curb.

The books were alive in these men. They talked with fire and enthusiasm, the intellectual stimulant stirring them as he had seen drink and anger stir other men. What he heard was no longer the philosophy of the dry, printed word, written by half-mythical demigods like Kant and Spencer. It was living philosophy, with warm, red blood, incarnated in these two men till its very features worked with excitement. Now.

The power of youth is the common wealth for the entire world. The faces of young people are the faces of our past, our present and our future. No segment in the society can match with the power, idealism, enthusiasm and courage of the young people.

I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.

Let the radiance of my enthusiasms envelop the poor courtyard and the bare classroom. Let my heart be a stronger column and my goodwill purer gold than the columns and gold of rich schools.

If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children, they will leave them an estate of incalculable value

The worst bankruptcy in the world is the person who has lost their enthusiasm.

Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.

Cooking is about enthusiasm, so it might look somewhat inconsistent such that it’s excessively self-assured to the unaided eye.

Being a culinary expert never appears to be an occupation; it turns into genuine enthusiasm.

Staffing the opportunities instead of the problems not only creates the most effective organization, it also creates enthusiasm and dedication.

When I first arrived in America, in an effort to drum up enthusiasm, I was billed by the media as ‘the White Pele’…I decided to put everything right, though, at my first press conference when I told the assembled media that I was not ‘the White Pele’ and that Pele was in fact ‘the Black George Best.

The best thing to do is to write about what you know, and if you write about what you know you can always pull those nice little tidbits that hook people, that shows that you know about this world and can bring people into a world that they may not know nothing about

It’s faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.

I read [Gandhi’s] book with great interest because I think the question [of] passive resistance … is a question of the greatest importance … for the whole humanity.