Every accepted public quote

“Preachers in pulpits talked about what a great message is in the book. No matter what you do, somebody always imputes meaning into your books.”

“A true gentleman is one that apologizes anyways, even though he has not offended a lady intentionally. He is in a class all of his own because he knows the value of a woman's heart.”

“Golden lads and girls all must, As chimney-sweepers, come to dust.”

“Diversity is about all of us, and about us having to figure out how to walk through this world together.”

“We are apes - we should be climbing.”

“Who is there that, in logical words, can express the effect music has on us? A kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which leads us to the edge of the Infinite and lets us for moments g...”

“Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.”

“The whispering of the truth is stronger than the thunderstorm of the untruth!”

“One of the pitfalls of writing about illness is that it is very easy to imagine people with cancer as either these wise, beyond-their-years creatures or else these sad-eyed, tragic people. A...”

“I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed.”

“Never apologize for showing your feelings. When you do, you are apologizing for the truth.”

“You'll spend a long portion of your life fighting off evil, if you are consumed by its toxins. One cannot win with the same tactics of the opponent, spend the time running toward your soul o...”

“The soul ... is audible, not visible.”

“I delete the picture of him from my phone; I delete his number. I think that if I just delete him enough, it will be like none of it ever happened and my heart won't hurt so badly”

“Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.”

“We are all blessed to be on the Bravo train because it's a fantastic platform for meeting new people, getting our messages out there, and connecting with fans around the world.”

“A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.”

“To me, every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle.”

“For love is no part of the dreamworld. Love belongs to Desire, and Desire is always cruel.”

“1. If from people, it is directed at you: resentment, envy, sarcasm, sarcasm, anger, aggression, hatred, revenge, rage - know that all this is people's sympathy, this does not mean that you...”

“There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.”

“My saddlebags are why Spanx exist! Now that I have a baby I also have a muffin top.”

“My cinematic crush has been pretty much the same since I was 12: Kevin Costner.”

“Playing good girls in the 30s was difficult, when the fad was to play bad girls. Actually I think playing bad girls is a bore; I have always had more luck with good girl roles because they r...”

“What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.”

“Israeli Arabs don't have to go. But if they stay, they have to take an oath of allegiance to Israel as a Jewish Zionist state.”

“Fear has a smell, as Love does.”

“I think we ought to read only books that bite and sting us. If the book we are reading doesn't shake us awake like a blow on the skull, why bother reading it in the first place? So that it c...”

“Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.”

“Life is too precious to sell it for a penny.”

“After all, if you run far enough, no one can catch you.”

“Only 8% of our worry will come to pass. 92% of our worry is wasted. DON'T PANIC”

“No truth can cure the sorrow we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness can cure that sorrow. All we can do is see it through to the end and learn some...”

“Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.”

“There are times when solitude is better than society, and silence is wiser than speech. We should be better Christians if we were more alone, waiting upon God, and gathering through meditati...”

“What I've always loved about faeries is the way that they, unlike so many other supernatural creatures, are not human and have never been human. They have different customs and different tab...”

“The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.”

“Writer's block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol.”

“By perseverance the snail reached the ark.”

“1. Be Impeccable With Your Word Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the dire...”

“Poetry is something I love to do. Good poetry has an amazing ability to be communicative before it's even understood. I get emotional just from the beauty of words.”

“I am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me.”

“In f(x), when I'm doing K-pop, that's cool - that's our concept. But me, as a solo artist, I'm just me. I'm gonna wear my jeans, my Jordans, and I'm just gonna be a little stupid on stage.”

“When two things occur successively we call them cause and effect if we believe one event made the other one happen. If we think one event is the response to the other, we call it a reaction....”

“The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.”

“Mad Girl's Love Song I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my lids and all is born again. (I think I made you up inside my head.) The stars go waltzing out in blue and red, And...”

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”

“Well, that's your opinion, isn't it? And I'm not about to waste my time trying to change it.”