"If what you do is being threatened as a profession, that could be scary. But that's the same reason why I walked out on stage many times after receiving death threats. I couldn't live without doing what I wanted to do. So at the same time I have to be willing to die for it."

"All the seven deadly sins are man's true nature. To be greedy. To be hateful. To have lust. Of course, you have to control them, but if you're made to feel guilty for being human, then you're going to be trapped in a never-ending sin-and-repent cycle that you can't escape from."

"Finding someone who's willing to drown with you creates a situation where you no longer want to drown."

"Sometimes you feel awkward being what you're best at, you feel like you have to be something new."

"Do not wait for favorable winds; take the oars and row toward your horizon. In this truth lies the bedrock of all virtue — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness."

"It is a profound truth that serenity begins the moment you cease demanding that the external world conform — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"The darkest nights often reveal that the most profound truths are found in silence."