Every accepted public quote

“Nothing is terrible except fear itself.”

“Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.”

“We have to understand in value what the services of nature are so that we can understand that degrading them is an irreplaceable resource that no amount of money or human ingenuity can repla...”

“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.”

“It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.”

“Writing in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me. Not only because I've never written anything before, but also because it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone...”

“There's only one rule you need to remember: laugh at everything and forget everybody else! It sounds egotistical, but it's actually the only cure for those suffering from self-pity.”

“I think; therefore I am.”

“i am a museum full of art but you had your eyes shut”

“We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.”

“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”

“Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.”

“Dance, my darling dance! If you dance then death can't catch you! Nothing bad can touch you! Dance!”

“It takes you 5 years to build your reputation, but 5 minutes to ruin it.”

“From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends. Books became her friends and there was one for every mood.”

“Knowledge has no significance [...] unless it is transformative.”

“You cannot suffer without thinking of suffering. Yet you can think that you are suffering without suffering.”

“It takes great courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it. And even more courage to see it in the one you love”

“I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.”

“I worry there is something broken in our generation, there are too many sad eyes on happy faces.”

“As a young physician in the mid-'80s, caring for people who had contracted H.I.V., I lost two of my patients to suicide at a time when the virus was doing very little harm to them. I have al...”

“It made me realize how I needed to stop punishing her for something she couldn't help [...] because sometimes things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them.”

“I don't know what metalcore is. I know what rock n' roll is... It's not rocket science.”

“If Christ has died for me, ungodly as I am, without strength as I am, then I cannot live in sin any longer, but must arouse myself to love and serve Him who has redeemed me.”

“Wind is renewable. Turbines are not.”

“Stop asking God to bless what you're doing. Find out what God's doing. It's already blessed.”

“Just do something. You might make a mistake, then you can fix it. But if you do nothing, you can't fix anything. And your life might turn out full of regrets.”

“...nothing in the world is harder than convincing someone of an unfamiliar truth.”

“Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.”

“Women can do everything; men can do the rest.”

“In prayer, we stand where angels bow with veiled faces. There, even there, the cherubim and seraphim adore before that selfsame throne to which our prayers ascend. And shall we come there wi...”

“Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.”

“The Eucharistic mystery stands at the heart and center of the liturgy since it is the fount of life by which we are cleansed and strengthened to live not for ourselves but for God and to be...”

“One man with courage is a majority.”

“When man disappears, the lights go out in our dreams and turn to darkness.”

“Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries.”

“I want to spread a message of positivity, not hatred.”

“Hold me as if I were the most fragile object that a touch of a feather could break. Dance with me with the same animal craving, with the same desire you would make love to me.”

“If you want to save time, be honest. If you want to save your life, be courageous.”

“The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.”

“Be still, sad heart! and cease repining; Behind the clouds is the sun still shining; Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall”

“Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was Oh no, not again. Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the bowl of petun...”

“I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.”

“To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for whic...”

“I love games. When I first saw 'Celebrity Family Feud,' I literally, in all caps, emailed my team and was like, 'Why am I not on this?'”

“People were messy. They were defined not only by what they'd done, but by what they would have done, under different circumstances, molded as much by their regrets as their actions, choices...”

“Sometimes with the most intense pain a paralysis of sensibility occurs. The soul disintegrates--hence the deadly frost--the free power of the mind--the shattering, ceaseless wit of this kind...”

“No hot guy should be allowed to have an English accent and drive a motorcycle. Not to mention wear the leather jacket or sport the cool shades. Hot guys should be forced into footie pajamas.”