The unknown is just as unknown as the ability to discover the known inside it.

The agony of man is always longer than the fleeting moments of bliss. The trick is to reverse those two.

Showing your compassion to another human takes less energy than hating him.

Religion is like wax. How anyone deals with it is decisive for how it will look like.

Words and laws in this world made place for signs and symbols.

To close a fellow human being in your heart compels more respect than attending 1000 Christmas Masses.

The blind cannot see, but nothing escapes him. The others can see but them eludes the things the blind can see.

This is definitely / for the brothers / who ain't here.

A man that sleeps all night wastes too much of life.

When people see a legend, they call it a legend. But to be a legend, it's a lot of hard work and patience. You can't play for five or ten years and be a legend. It takes longer than that.

I did, I'd say, at least about 80 percent of the rest of the driving, and I had the time of my life.

I was brought up by my mother and my two sisters, although they're older than me and fled the nest very young, so I was technically raised as an only child, but I was very much loved.

That's how writing works, at least for me: even the stuff that doesn't work out gets funneled into the stuff that does work out.

A half-hour before bedtime, I remind myself that I now deserve to prepare myself for a good night's sleep. You can't focus on your work if you're sleep-deprived even if you have a fascinating job.

I think there's something we all relate to about...wanting to get to our most primal self.

A man can be a hero in any profession

If you're criticized then you can use it as an experience. Compliments, you can't use.