Every accepted public quote

“The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.”

“I believe that you're great, that there's something magnificent about you. Regardless of what has happened to you in your life, regardless of how young or how old you think you might be, the...”

“Happy life is a myth only struggle is the truth.”

“I fear that many a man's good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in thi...”

“Someone once said that death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside of us while we live. I could tell you who said it, but who the hell really cares.”

“I learned everything from that show, so it's just a wonderful memory to me. A lot of people would be embarrassed to admit that they were on 'Barney', but I embrace the fact. I just had such...”

“...there would be punishment and pain, and there would be happiness, too. That was writing.”

“Am I going to complain about being typecast as smart? I don't think so.”

“I don't think I am evangelical in my work.”

“A word on 'Kingdom of Heaven:' if you get the four-disc set, which is 3 hr. 8 min., you'll see why it's such a good movie. It was a real passion project, and it's the film I'm most proud of....”

“On an increasingly crowded planet, humanity faces many threats - but none is greater than climate change. It magnifies every hazard and tension of our existence.”

“Prayer is not artful monologue Of voice uplifted from the son; It is Love's tender dialogue Between the soul and God.”

“Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to?”

“There ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.”

“A daydreamer is prepared for most things.”

“Women possess an inordinate power over men who after an act of intimacy feel deceived when they are subsequently rejected. Once intimate men wrongfully presume, they acquire permanent licens...”

“Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth.”

“The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.”

“I was no longer able to hear the music that issues from a decent piece of prose.”

“Field hockey is my strongest sport, and if I lose a game, I take a long, hot bath and moan about it.”

“If reassurances could dull pain, nobody would ever go to the trouble of pressing grapes.”

“I think I am a little jealous of women who have great girlfriends as adults.”

“I may be forty, but every morning when I get up, I feel like a twenty-year-old. Unfortunately, there's never one around.”

“What you intuitively desire, that is possible to you.”

“I care not how humble your bookshelf may be, or how lonely the room which it adorns. Close the door of that room behind you, shut off with it all the cares of the outer world, plunge back in...”

“Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.”

“Never underestimate a bookworm”

“There are lots of ideas which extend the Copernican principle one step further. We went from the solar system to the galaxy to zillions of galaxies and now to realising even that isn't all t...”

“It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.”

“To get where you want to be, you must first know where you are.”

“Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.”

“Being stuck in adolescence - that's a hell. 'Peter Pan' is a dystopia, and we forget that. Neverland is a bad place to be.”

“Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild.”

“Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn't come from a store.”

“We are a short poem in a endless emptiness page, words are lighthouses that ignites and struggle to deliver light to the dark edges of the infinite, and mystic sounds struggle to give voice...”

“If every woman who's had an abortion took tomorrow off in protest, America would grind to a halt. And that would be symbolic: because women grind to a halt if they are not in control of thei...”

“Money can't buy friends, but you can get a better class of enemy.”

“Last words are always harder to remember when no one knows that someone's about to die.”

“At some fundamental level, religion does not allow for compromise. It insists on the impossible. If God has spoken, then followers are expected to live up to God's edicts, regardless of the...”

“Island Records was the first record label to... acknowledge me. After that, quickly, Republic Records, and then Atlantic Records, Sony Records and Warner Bros. It was all the labels at once....”

“There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity...”

“While humans play God, dogs learn from their masters.”

“Suffering has always been with us, does it really matter in what form it comes? All that matters is how we bear it and how we fit it into our lives.”

“Men are boys for such a long time and really don't start getting the great roles until they're in their mid-thirties. But then they've got a long time to do them, whereas for women, it's all...”

“Unless you're involved with thinking about what you're doing, you end up doing the same thing over and over, and that becomes tedious and, in the end, defeating.”

“Every good writer or filmmaker has something eating at them, right? That they can't quite get off their back . And so your job is to make your audience care about your obsessions.”

“Looking at beauty in the world, is the first step of purifying the mind.”

“Life is but a dream for the dead.”