It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive.... We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

To love beauty is to see light.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.

Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

However close you get to others, you can never get inside them, even when you're inside them.

War had the effect of encouraging people to try to stay alive. Poverty, too. Survival was simply too hard-won to be given up lightly.

Always you have to train yourself to swim with sharks.

Try and endeavor almost have the same interpretation, but in one meaningful difference. Who doesn't try to get his goals, should endeavor more than just try. (Tora-Bora mountains)

Every character actor, in their own little sphere, is the lead.

The great thing about writing compared to life is getting to tie things up.

The terrible sticky thing about truth is if it exists, it's coming for you.

People really, really hate their religion being criticized. It's as though you've said they had an ugly face; they seem to identify personally with it.

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.

I spend more time with Gucci [Mane] or Birdman than 300, but all this is just family. Who cares [about] contracts?