Hell is not to love anymore.

A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.

It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.

The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.

Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.

Hope is a risk that must be run.

Suicide only really frightens those who are never tempted by it and never will be, for its darkness only welcomes those who are predestined to it.

Faith is not a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it.

...the most dangerous shortsightedness consists in underestimating the mediocre.

You owe it to everyone you love to find pockets of tranquility in your busy world.

Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.

Praying is passionate faith.

Absence of occupation is not rest A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd.

If we ignore our death, we end up just going around completely oblivious to why we do the things we do!

I'd seen 'Interview with A Vampire' and saw Dracula movies growing up, but I never thought, 'I love vampires; I have to do a show about vampires.'

The kid is the best thing that ever happened to me.

Take the limits off of yourself. You will never rise higher than your thinking. Create a great vision for your life.

If you write 50 songs, you're bound to write at least a dozen good ones.

Some [people] are really smart. You know who you are. Some [people] are really thick. Unfortunately, you don't know who you are.

My career was full of struggles and dreams, disappointments and peaks and valleys. But there was no Twitter, no Facebook or TMZ. Young actors could make mistakes and not become the focus of tabloids.

Take any celebrity - all we really know is what they choose to tell us, or what they show us in public.