Every accepted public quote

“After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.”

“The second, sober thought of the people is seldom wrong, and always efficient.”

“I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.”

“The dreams are escape for the fearful and sensitive hearts who wanted to seize the day and catch the butterfly without killing it between the palms.”

“I think every facet of running has its benefits towards a starting pitcher. I mean, you're explosive off the mound and yet you've got to have endurance.”

“The whole of nature cries out at our mistreatment of her. If the planet were a patient, we would have treated her long ago.”

“Expand the definition of 'reading' to include non-fiction, humor, graphic novels, magazines, action adventure, and, yes, even websites. It's the pleasure of reading that counts; the focus wi...”

“God never talks. But the devil keeps advertising, Father. The devil does a lot of commercials.”

“We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to feel n...”

“A man of business may talk of philosophy; a man who has none may practise it.”

“The future crashing into the present like a wave.”

“Only.. I want to do die as myself”

“My therapist would be so happy to know I'm doing all this walking. They've done a great job of putting me back together, haven't they?”

“Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.”

“Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.”

“Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to prid...”

“People don't care for facts, unless they can feel those facts in their bones.”

“She had never imagined she had the power to make someone else so happy. And not a magical power, either--a purely human one.”

“With us is the Lord our God, to help us and to fight our battles.”

“He specialized in the murder of dreams, Hazel Grace...”

“If equal affection cannot be, Let the more loving one be me.”

“I love listening to the sound of your heart beating, the comforting memory of a cuddling womb.”

“Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after...”

“The spiritual life is not a life before, after, or beyond our everyday existence. No, the spiritual life can only be real when it is lived in the midst of the pains and joys of the here and...”

“Sometimes the hardest part isn't letting go but rather learning to start over.”

“You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to...”

“Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival.”

“And i finally let go, It was the beginning for me And the end for you.”

“I've always been outwardly personal. I've always been that chick. A lot of my friends be like, 'TMI, Tiffany, TMI.' I just feel like it's important to share your experience on this Earth, be...”

“A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it.”

“He said that we belonged together because he was born with a flower and I was born with a butterfly and that flowers and butterflies need each other for survival.”

“Who hears music, feels his solitude peopled at once.”

“You're only as sick as your secrets.”

“Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.”

“Attitude is attitude, whether you're a West Coast gangster or East Coast gangster, you know?”

“There's so much you can do with bodyweight alone. The basics always come up for a reason: sit-ups, planks, push-ups. They'll always give you results. The way to take it up a notch is to comp...”

“To be a god can ultimately become boring and degrading. There'd be reason enough for the invention of free will! A god might wish to escape into sleep and be alive only in the unconscious pr...”

“Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.”

“Live music is better.”

“"You only mess up when you mix them seasonal people, with lifetime expectations." -Madea/Tyler Perry”

“Without the sun, there would be no new beginnings; without the moon there would be no new dreams.”

“You may remain a couple after betrayal and even establish a quality relationship, but the mental anguish never leaves, and your soul will haunt you forever.”

“It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he'll look for...”

“Touch her, and I'll freeze your testicles off and put them in a jar. Understand?”

“A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.”

“Knowledge not shared remains unknown”

“Getting an audience is hard. Sustaining an audience is hard. It demands a consistency of thought, of purpose, and of action over a long period of time.”

“How ghastly for her, people actually thinking, with their brains, and right next door. Oh, the travesty of it all.”