Every accepted public quote

“The mind is a wonderful servant, but a terrible master.”

“Where words leave off, music begins.”

“The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honour or dishonour to the latest generation.”

“Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist - it reduces him to his fighting weight.”

“While politicians endlessly stress the need to downsize government, they remain largely silent as the number of bullshit jobs goes right on growing. This results in scenarios where, on the o...”

“I'm an atheist, but I'm very relaxed about it. I don't preach my atheism, but I have a huge amount of respect for people like Richard Dawkins who do.”

“Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover.”

“I love liminal characters. I love these characters that are outside and enter and consequently are perpetually outsiders, and who hold themselves to a higher standard.”

“We took such care of tomorrow, but died on the way there.”

“Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.”

“Our character is not defined by the struggles and conflicts we traverse in life, nor by wins and losses; but instead, by the battles we dare to fight.”

“That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate...”

“The human mind has manipulated our species existence. We no longer know how to do the one thing that should be the most natural and simplest. We have forgotten how to just be.”

“You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.”

“I love 'The Omen,' just as a piece of plotting.”

“I like things that make you grit your teeth. I like tucking my chin in and sort of leading into the storm. I like that feeling. I like it a lot.”

“Perfect prayer does not consist in many words, silent remembering and pure intention raises the heart to that supreme Power.”

“Life is to be enjoyed, not endured”

“I don't spend that much time being introspective, believe it or not. All I know is that I grew up not questioning God because that's how you are. God was there like the birds and the wind.”

“An ability to look into the confusing mess of life and see things for what they are.”

“I am such a huge Spice Girls fan: always have been and always will be.”

“It isn't that they can't see the solution, it's that they can't see the problem.”

“Impara le regole come un professionista, in modo da poterle rompere come un artista.”

“It wasn't that time stopped in the library. It was as if it were captured, collected here, and in all libraries -- and not only my time, my life, but all human time as well. In the library,...”

“Our greatest strength lies in our ability to channelize our energy for the right cause, and stay motivated against all the odds.”

“Society has an inherent right to constantly question justice and to compel adherence to founding institutions; when justice conflicts with traditional institutional values, the populace must...”

“The Romans would never have had time to conquer the world if they had been obliged to learn Latin first of all.”

“To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.”

“Roads Go Ever On Roads go ever ever on, Over rock and under tree, By caves where never sun has shone, By streams that never find the sea; Over snow by winter sown, And through the merry flow...”

“Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted.”

“I don't want, under any circumstances, to see in 'Haaretz' a picture of a woman with a baby in her arms crying while policemen deport her.”

“Life consists not in holding good cards, but in playing those you do hold well.”

“I learned the way a monkey learns - by watching its parents.”

“It's okay. We aren't in the same class. Just don't forget that some of us watch the sunset too.”

“I'm on the road constantly. I'm a nomad. I don't really have a home right now. I don't identify with one place in particular.”

“The world has a very serious problem, my friend' Shiva went on. 'Poor children still die by their millions. Westerners and the global rich -- like me -- live in post-scarcity society, while...”

“There's a meeting in Command. Disregard your current schedule,' he says. 'Done,' I say. 'Did you follow it at all today?' he asks in exasperation. 'Who knows? I'm mentally disoriented.' I ho...”

“One who's our friend is fond of us; one who's fond of us isn't necessarily our friend.”

“That's always been part of my goal - to show the dark side of women. Men write about bad men all the time, and they're called antiheroes.”

“I will build queendoms out of wreckages, and navigate through the chaos with nothing but the certainty of my inner voice. I've often found when one chapter closes another will open, no matte...”

“If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.”

“People are always talking about the old days. They say that the old movies were better, that the old actors were so great. But I don't think so. All I can say about the old days is that they...”

“Writing and cafes are strongly linked in my brain.”

“Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.”

“Sometimes he wished no one knew, and other times he wanted everyone to know”

“The West has always been the epicentre of possibility. One of the ways we forge against mortality is to head west. It's to do with catching the sun before it slips behind the horizon.”

“Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.”

“The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.”