Follow your passion, but never forget your responsibilities.

Sometimes, you need to downgrade your dreams to upgrade your reality.

One of the happiest moments in a father's life is when his children treat him like a brother.

Sometimes, when you attempt to run away from your true calling, all roads will conspire to lead you back to where you came from.

Sometimes, failure uppercuts those who look down on other people.

Some people succeed not because they have wealth and education, but because they have firm focus.

I'd rather be an unhappy principled man than a happy person with a lax conscience.

The existence of 'forever' depends on how you treat 'now'.

The best way to cleanse the world from monsters is by not becoming one.

Life is pushing you toward love.

If you want to live a creative life, get efficient at failing.

Valuing a writer only for their diversity, but not their humanity or talent – that’s tokenism.

When you love yourself too much, sometimes it becomes a problem, because it gets out of control. if you don't control yourself, you become yourself closest enemy !

Life is like a B-movie. You don't want to leave in the middle of it but you don't want to see it again.

I was always tearing stuff apart to see how it worked.

The serene, silent beauty of a holy life is the most powerful influence in the world, next to the night of God.

It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant.

Comedy exists to laugh at things that aren't laughable. But isn't it? That's what separates us from the animals. We laugh.

My first gig, I was about 17 or 18. But I'd been singing a long time. I got a guitar when I was 8, and started trying to write songs as a teenager.