There is power in confronting your fears. In knowing what it is you fear above all, you can prevent it from becoming your reality. There are always choices.

My emotions are invisible, untouchable—invincible even—and their power far outweighs my own. And so it seems unfair that for all the little I can do to them, they can do so much to me.

This world owes us nothing. Existence is not indebted to us. Humanity lives under this misconception that we deserve life’s blessings, that we deserve happiness. But in truth, life owes us nothing

The stories books tell transcend those of the characters inked upon their pages. A book discloses far more about the person who reads it.

The worst prisons were not constructed of warped steel and stone. They were carved out of expectations and lies, judgment and corruption.

No force but love can impel one to step willingly into the shadows so that the other may shine.

There are many things in this life one can plan for, anticipate, control, manipulate, but love is not one of them.

At the bottom of freshly dug holes, I bury my problems alongside the waxen seeds.

Thing was, after the hurricane, life went on. You had to buy milk, fix the broken windows, play some Warhammer, discuss some girls. Wow!

A condition of complete simplicity(Costing not less than everything)

Music the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have below.

Journalism is the closest thing I have to a religion, because I believe deeply in the role and responsibility the journalists have to the people of a self-governing community.

You're constantly trying to prove yourself, even after you've made it.

It's gonna be a lot of zeroes in that contract. You gonna think it's alphabet soup or something, all those zeroes in there.

Unfortunately, what my head wanted and what my heart wanted were two completely different things.

I don't talk about myself in the third person, and I laugh at people who do.

The Turkish road is not my model because I am critical of the way you are dealing with freedom of expression, of how you are dealing with the treatment of minorities, and your economic vision.