When my prayers are answered, I am happy because it was my wish. When my prayers are not answered, I am even more happy because that was gods wish.

Never explain yourself to anyone, because the one who likes you would not need it, and the one dislikes you wouldn't believe it.

Body is purified by water. Ego by tears. Intellect is purified by knowledge. And soul is purified with love.

Be like a flower that gives its fragrance even to the hand that crushed it.

Never make a decision in anger and never make a promise in happiness.

A hopeless man sees difficulties in every chance, but a hopeful person sees chances in every difficulty.

Beautiful people are not always good, but good people are always beautiful.

The worst of our faults is our interest in other people's faults.

People are of two types, they are either your brothers in faith or your equals in humanity.

Hide the good you do, and make known the good done to you.

There are three signs of a knowledgeable person: knowledge, forbearance and silence.

Happiness is a very pretty thing to feel, but very dry to talk about.

When sitting down to write a letter, it always pays to calm one’s mood, collect one’s thoughts, and have a plan.

Results, are the name of the game.

Armando Iannucci is one of my heroes. As I was growing up, he was probably the most influential comic voice that I had.

If my mum thinks I'm acting like a diva she'll soon tell me off... She'll cut me down to size!

The sun has just risen, weak and watery-looking, like it had just spilled itself over the horizon and is too lazy to clean itself up.

I'm not so interested in being indie just for the sake of being indie.

Sometimes when you're putting the work in it just seems so, so hard, and you never know when that work's going to pay off.

A Good artist has less time than ideas.

Until I was about 14, I was a fat boy, or at least I looked like a fat boy. I think that being funny was a bit of a defence mechanism for me, so I ended up being a bit of a joker.