Every accepted public quote

“My career started young and I was really ambitious, and then I had success and I hung out with people who were much older. I think I might have been temporally misplaced, so I thought I was...”

“So it's you and a syringe against the Capitol? See, this is why no one lets you make the plans.”

“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of being and ideal grace. I love thee to...”

“To be stupid, and selfish, and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness - though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless.”

“It is a misery to be born, a pain to live, a trouble to die.”

“Since my education, I've done quite untraditional things. There are very few Etonians who went to Rada. And far fewer Etonians - certainly when I was there - went to Cambridge. I don't know...”

“Things past redress are now with me past care.”

“Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever.”

“I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in the world.”

“The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.”

“The main thing is we never dissolved our Gang Starr contract. We are still signed to each other. We never disbanded the group. If Guru really wanted to super-dead it he would have said, 'Yo,...”

“You remember too much, my mother said to me recently. Why hold onto all that? And I said, Where can I put it down?”

“Yes, I will put it out there - I will work for anyone for free if they're prepared to make their clothing Fair Trade and organic. It's really hard to get people interested in it.”

“I do this real moron thing, and it's called thinking. And apparently I'm not a very good American because I like to form my own opinions.”

“Never give up, and be confident in what you do. There may be tough times, but the difficulties which you face will make you more determined to achieve your objectives and to win against all...”

“We fatties have a bond, dude. It's like a secret society. We got all kinds of shit you don't know about. Handshakes, special fat people dances-we got these secret fugging lairs in the center...”

“Wise men speak only of what they know”

“I love the sight of his naked body. especially in these quiet, vulnerable moments. These brackets of time stapled between dreams and reality are my favorite. There's a sweetness in this hesi...”

“I happen to be a big fan of Western civilization; I think it beats the hell out of tyranny and starvation.”

“What's being considered now is solidifying my place in the NBA. Keep focusing on the grass roots, because I want the next guys to be good. Right now, all I'm doing for camps and academies an...”

“Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.”

“Laws, like the spider's web, catch the fly and let the hawk go free.”

“God is in the slums, in the cardboard boxes where the poor play house. God is in the silence of a mother who has infected her child with a virus that will end both their lives. God is in the...”

“My father loves people. No matter what their race, no matter what their position in life, he treated everyone with kindness and love and respect. And that was instilled in me just by watchin...”

“In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.”

“Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.”

“I was a Fine Art major. You do a bit of everything until the final year, when you specialise. I did pencil drawing and sculpture. It's a pretty well-rounded fine art education. I thought tha...”

“One must create a personal aura and environment of strength and dominance in order to avoid physical conflict.”

“Lesbians and gays... they still have to fight, even inside. It's not that simple, even if they seem to be accepted.”

“Man is not born to atheism. He is born to believe.”

“The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.”

“There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.”

“If people were rain, I'd be a drizzle and she'd be a hurricane.”

“Smile more. Smiling can make you and others happy.”

“The most unhappy of all men is he who believes himself to be so.”

“Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.”

“Where ignorance lurks, so too do the frontiers of discovery and imagination”

“Men are not influenced by things, but by their thoughts about things.”

“Remember the first time you went to a show and saw your favorite band. You wore their shirt, and sang every word. You didn't know anything about scene politics, haircuts, or what was cool. A...”

“Now that I'm a XXL Freshman, you know, I feel like that sets high standards for me, and I feel like I have to deliver.”

“Once in a golden hour I cast to earth a seed. Up there came a flower, The people said, a weed.”

“Only those who confront unusual challenge can flaunt unusual success.”

“Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of...”

“All my problems bow before my stubbornness.”

“This above all: to thine own self be true.”

“Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told.”

“I fell in love with him. But I don't just stay with him by default as if there's no one else available to me. I stay with him because I choose to, every day that I wake up, every day that we...”

“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.”