Every accepted public quote

“Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.”

“He said that the education of the young was more important than anything that could be done for those who are already grown up.”

“You can cope with life if you have hope in Christ.”

“I just have to let the story go the way it needs to go and let them take the detours they want to take, and I'll get to the end.”

“Kids can sniff out when they are being preached to, and they don't like it. So while my books aren't amoral, they are not infused with morals or a message, either, and kids like that.”

“There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.”

“religion is no longer the opium of the people but the vitamin pills of the feeble.”

“Misha, my best friend who got me into bed and fucked me with a lie.”

“The decision-making process is in constant conflict with our ability to think and resolve. We may reason, which can be faulty and contrived; we may feel passion which can distort and manipul...”

“We didn't go to the moon to explore or because it was in our DNA or because we're Americans. We went because we were at war and we felt a threat.”

“Do not set aside your happiness. Do not wait to be happy in the future. The best time to be happy is always now.”

“Cooperation is doing with a smile what you have to do anyhow.”

“You were born to stand out, stop trying to fit in.”

“Hell may have all the best composers, but heaven has all the best choreographers.”

“There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.”

“When I was in high school, I started writing a serial novel, longhand, set in the Arthurian mythos, and influenced not incidentally by Marion Zimmer Bradley's 'The Mists of Avalon.'”

“The Theory of Evolution has more holes in it than a dam made out of Swiss cheese.”

“Every year, many, many stupid people graduate from college. And if they can do it, so can you.”

“Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.”

“It might take time, that needs patience and in the end, all the hard work is worthwhile, but just keep in mind your goals and purposes, and then use self-discipline as an invaluable tool to...”

“Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”

“Victimize gun owners, then blame the victims. That's the Chicago Way, and it will never change as long as city bosses are pathological in their hatred of our civil rights.”

“Think of it this way: performing is like sprinting while screaming for three, four minutes. And then you do it again. And then you do it again. And then you walk a little, shouting the whole...”

“Look, everyone talks about the unknown like it's some big scary thing, but it's the familiar that's always bothered me. It's heavy, builds up around you like rocks, until it's walls and a ce...”

“Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.”

“You looove me. (holds out arms) You love me this much.”

“The universe always bends reality to our wish when we hold the vision of what we want with unbending intent.”

“Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.”

“It isn't the happy ending Ingrid and I had dreamed up, but it's all a part of what I'm working through. The way life changes. The way people and things disappear. Then appear, unexpectedly,...”

“Tell people there's an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them the paint is wet, and they have to touch it to be sure.”

“You and I will be lost and found a thousand times along this cobbled road of us.”

“To save all we must risk all.”

“I noted that people are happy here in India. When I went back home, people had everything in the materialistic sense and were surrounded with abundance, but they were not happy.”

“Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged heart.”

“When you are thwarted, you are the only one who can change that reality.”

“Tea is slow. In growing. In drinking. In enjoying. It makes sense. Good things take time.”

“i dont love you... like i loved you... yesterday.”

“I think I loved you more than I originally planned.”

“Happiness is something that happy people are always looking to increase or amplify, while those lacking it are always trying to find.”

“I don't think I was awake for much of my childhood. I did a lot of napping. This might have been a defensive measure against encroaching depression. Until about the age of eleven or twelve,...”

“There is no mistaking that in conjunction with the federal government, major corporations create a larger community of poor; instead of contributing some profits to people in need, they fill...”

“Everyone who knows how to read has it in their power to magnify themselves, to multiply the ways in which they exist, to make their life full, significant, and interesting.”

“The best anti-aging product is a great, natural-looking hair color, especially when you're graying.”

“Love is a game of tic-tac-toe, constantly waiting for the next x or o.”

“The brutal reality is that newer, more sprawling suburbs - and especially the cheap boom-years exburbs - aren't just a bit unsustainable, they're ruinously unsustainable in almost every way,...”

“To catch the rainbows of your dreams, love yourself, love what you do, and how you do.”

“Star-crossed lovers desperate to get home together. Two hearts beating as one. Romance.”

“Al Jazeera has abandoned even the semblance of a credible media outlet, and it broadcasts - both within Gaza and outside it, to the world - anti-Semitic incitement, lies, provocation, and en...”