Every accepted public quote

“The world calls for, and expects from us, simplicity of life, the spirit of prayer, charity towards all, especially towards the lowly and the poor, obedience and humility, detachment, and se...”

“There is no progress or accomplishment without sacrifice.”

“The greatest nation in the world should not have much to fear from a family, especially children, fleeing violence. More importantly, children fleeing violence ought to have nothing to fear...”

“Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.”

“My responsibility will be to unite all the women and men ready to take on the tremendous challenges which are waiting for us, and to act.”

“A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.”

“He's around the twist,' said Azalea. 'Breaking all the windows? He's mad.' 'Ah, no,' said the King. 'It's only madness if you actually do it. If you want to break all the windows in the hous...”

“The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.”

“I feel what I need to feel: happiness, anxiety, joy, sadness. I let the waves ride themselves out, without being consumed by madness.”

“If you have haters, the solution is simple: ignore them and keep doing what you do.”

“Writing takes a combination of sophistication and innocence; it takes conscience, our belief that something is beautiful because it is right.”

“Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean, they don't call them Shakespeare comedies for nothing.”

“I don't like anybody to be angry with me. I'd rather have friends.”

“I am convinced that human life is filled with many pure, happy, serene examples of insincerity, truly splendid of their kind-of people deceiving one another without (strangely enough) any wo...”

“If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”

“If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.”

“I love to fool you once, I love to fool you twice, I love to fool you a third time. And just when you think it's all over, I have what I call that Carrie hand-out-of-the-grave moment. Just w...”

“Even the finest sword plunged into salt water will eventually rust.”

“Better not to give in to it. It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.”

“No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.”

“I know I'm not a coal miner, but I do long hours and I never complain, and there is nowhere else I'd rather be. So, yeah, that's how I'd define myself. I want to do it right, and prove peopl...”

“Hermione uses all these big long tongue twister words. I don't know what she's going on about half the time!”

“On the subject of literary genres, I've always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. I'd love to be the kind of person that drifts off into the garden with a slim volume of Elizabet...”

“I really want to write a novel. I also want to learn to play the mandolin.”

“God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.”

“Now that we've got computers, you can pump up anything that anybody ever uttered.”

“The great thing about rock and roll is that someone like me can be a star.”

“Hug me, though I know it is fake. In cold winter nights even a snake feels warm, even lies sound as dreams fulfilled and love reciprocated.”

“The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.”

“Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back -- to be sucked back -- into it?”

“She wished she could visit Mariam's grave, to sit with her awhile, leave a flower or two. But she sees now that it doesn't matter. Mariam is never very far.... Mariam is in her own heart, wh...”

“I used to be a great fan of doing crosswords. When you're fiddling around with anagrams, you get wonderful jumbles of syllables that become interesting.”

“Life is funny. Things change, people change, but you will always be you, so stay true to yourself and never sacrifice who you are for anyone.”

“If ever I expected to come face to face with an angry Christian fundamentalist, it wasn't in FAO Schwarz.”

“Knowledge can be communicated but not wisdom.”

“Enough is enough - wake up and live already.”

“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

“I love to use beets as a lip tint. It lasts all day.”

“While I can see how the government has, at times, wasted taxpayers' money, and I can admit that too often its programs are ineffective, I also can see the good that government does.”

“The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.”

“Social and safety net programs are the most difficult of all public service activities to calculate proper funding; governments fund these programs to temporarily alleviate a problem; a more...”

“An honest bookstore would post the following sign above its 'self-help' section: 'For true self-help, please visit our philosophy, literature, history and science sections, find yourself a g...”

“A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books.”

“Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.”

“The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are o...”

“The trouble with being in the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.”

“You cannot judge a guy by his cover but by the story he is writing for himself.”

“When I got out of undergrad, I had a degree in theater and telecommunications. My first job, I was a news reporter for the local stories for NPR. Then I was a country-western DJ. I did data...”