Water is so friendly when you have it on your palms, but so evil when they have you on theirs.

Money cannot eradicate poverty, only education can.

Only a coward carries a gun, a brave person never needs a gun.

Some people are in misery of carrying the entire world’s pain on their shoulders. They are called writers.

I almost moved mountains, touched rivers, impressed deserts and motivated skies, but I never made it to your heart.

If you see yourself as a man, no one will dare to see you as a kid.

Somewhere in this small world, you can find a place where everyone appreciates you more than you think you deserve.

For many people around the world ethnicity is not a language, it is a religion.

There is no vicious inhumanity than keeping children hungry.

It feels good to have parents, but it feels even better to not have an evil one.

The nastiest kind of writer is a ghostwriter, who bears people’s children in their body for money.

You can’t save everyone. It’s not an option.

Keep your virginity for as long as you can, until it starts to feel weird to you. Then just get it over with.

I adore pigs, and I love eating them and cooking them, and I love using the whole animal.

It ain't nothing till I call it.

There's no day when I don't think it would be great to be 25 years old and have the Olympics coming in less than 300 days - and be the best in the world. I can't think of anything so motivating.

Ideas are a dime a dozen. People who execute them are not.

It is the habit of mediocre minds to condemn all that is beyond their grasp.

Karma grows from our hearts. Karma terminates from our hearts.

I've been very lucky to work with many amazing animators and directors who can interpret and extend the music I make. When it's done well, it can create extra meaning and new context for the song.

I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.