Every accepted public quote

“Imagination has always had powers of resurrection that no science can match.”

“It's strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book.”

“For so many people, television and movies may be the only way they understand people who aren't like them.”

“A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.”

“A great book begins with an idea; a great life, with a determination.”

“If someone really takes a risk, it doesn't get dismissed. That's what happened when the Oscar was won posthumously by Heath Ledger, who did one of the definitive villain performances of all...”

“I'm definitely more one of the drivers who would want to do Daytona, Le Mans, and the Indy 500.”

“And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion. And whenever those twin poisonous flowers began to sprout in the parch...”

“You liked me and light found me.”

“For thy sweet love remembr'd such wealth brings That then, I scorn to change my state with kings.”

“Something inside a man goes to pieces when he has to bury the only person who ever understood him. There is no time to heal that sort of wound.”

“Yes, I decided, a man can truly change. The events of the past year have taught me much about myself, and a few universal truths. I learned, for instance, that while wounds can be inflicted...”

“I don't think kids of color should have to search far and wide to find books that reflect their experience.”

“You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.”

“And whether you're drawn to gospel music or church music or honky-tonk music, it informs your character and it informs your talent.”

“I do not mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is the language I don't understand.”

“Adopt responsibility for your own well-being, try to put your family together, try to serve your community, try to seek for eternal truth... That's the sort of thing that can ground you in y...”

“Often, we fabricate the people we love to make loving them more palatable; the fictionalized version of them reduces the awareness of truth.”

“All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values.”

“I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.”

“Don't say I'm insignificant in the infinite, don't say i'm alone in life, you are a cosmic collection that dances harmoniously. You coexist with all beings, visible and invisible together, y...”

“Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.”

“Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.”

“The first author I remember being obsessed by, actually realizing 'I like the way he writes and I like the way he tells stories,' was C.S. Lewis and the 'Narnia' books.”

“The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.”

“In my culture, whispering in the company of others is considered rude.”

“After some point, working harder makes achieving the goal harder or even impossible.”

“Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.”

“Every suicide is a solution to a problem.”

“Perhaps it has been too uncomfortable for those with vested interests to acknowledge, but we have spent the best part of the past century enthusiastically testing the world to utter destruct...”

“Hundreds of wise men cannot make the world a heaven, but one idiot is enough to turn it into a hell.”

“There is nothing going on. I took nothing you wanted. You can't have it back.”

“If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.”

“A dark cloud is no sign that the sun has lost his light; and dark black convictions are no arguments that God has laid aside His mercy.”

“All fighters run. The constant motion prepares you for being in the ring. And running strengthens your legs. Punching power comes from your lower body.”

“When you're seventeen to early twenties, that's the time you're trying to work out who you are. If you're trying to make some kind of artistic or creative impact, that's the age when you sta...”

“It takes courage to accept one's ignorance.”

“I didn't grow up wealthy. We couldn't even afford spaghetti sauce when I was first born, but my mom and dad worked really hard and came from the bottom up.”

“She already felt dead in everything but name. What remained to be taken from her? She longed to be enfolded, welcomed, into the earth - to breathe no more, love no more, hurt no more”

“In 'Thor,' that was my own hair. I grew it out. But I have naturally curly, blonde hair, so I'll never look like that. By the time I got to 'The Avengers,' I had come off two other films, wh...”

“I was born on a plantation, and things weren't so good. We didn't have any money. I never thought of the word 'poor' 'til I got to be a man, but when you live in a house that you can always...”

“It's not enough to train today's workforce. We also have to prepare tomorrow's workforce by guaranteeing every child access to a world-class education.”

“Time spent for temporary happiness like movie or outing or weekend on a beach is all synthetic; with shelf life of a day or two. Work for your bigger dreams that should last for whole life....”

“No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher,...”

“Spinoza or Nietzsche are philosophers whose critical and destructive powers are without equal, but this power always springs from affirmation, from joy, from a cult of affirmation and joy, f...”

“I'm just a regular boy who goofs around, pulls pranks, and makes jokes. I'm not Mr. Debonair Suave. I'm just a regular boy who goofs around, pulls pranks, and makes jokes. That doesn't sound...”

“The glory of God is in man fully alive.”

“When a crime writer thinks up a delicious twist, it is a great moment. Time to relax and take the rest of the day off. I do think that it can be overdone, however.”