You are born to win. But to become that true winner, you must make living a winning life your priority.

Do not deny the truth.

Shakespeare opens a mine which contains gold and diamonds in unexhaustible plenty, though clouded by incrustations, debased by impurities, and mingled with a mass of meaner minerales.

I either eat too much or starve myself. Sleep for 14 hours or have insomniac nights. Fall in love very hard or hate passionately. I don't know what grey is. I never did.

I think growing up in a small town, the kind of people I met in my small town, they still haunt me. I find myself writing about them over and over again.

You know, you don't have to look like everybody else to be acceptable and to feel acceptable.

Death: Do you never stop questioning? Antonius Block: No. I never stop.

I'm giving all that I have in this life. I'm opening up my notebook and I'm saying everything in there out loud.

I'm in a really lucky position where people will be interested in whatever I do, but what I do is sing.

Why don't we have people like Thich Nhat Hanh or Marshall Rosenberg and Nelson Mandela solving violent situations in a peaceful way?

And "withdrawal from the world" is nothing but the destruction of passions and manifestation of the innermost life in Christ.