Every accepted public quote

“My spirituality is the spirituality of love. You give love to the Universe and the Universe reflect back the refined love back to you. Because love is all-pervading, divine, and the ultimate...”

“Gentleness is the antidote for cruelty.”

“When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve.”

“So many women characters are extensions of male fantasy.”

“Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.”

“I would type in things like, 'How to play beginner songs on guitar,' and one of the first I learnt was 'Hey, Soul Sister' by Train. I taught myself these chords I didn't know the name of and...”

“I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I felt like everyone hated me. That is the most unhappy time of my life.”

“I used to write out of angst. My writing was quite miserable, quite angry, even when it was funny. It was based on this sadness and tired emotional disdain for the world.”

“All, or nearly all, the advantage there is in fixing any constitutional limits to the power of a government, is simply to give notice to the government of the point at which it will meet wit...”

“It was an indulgence, learning last words. Other people had chocolate; I had dying declarations.”

“Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.”

“I couldn't be a royal. It's like living in a supersonic goldfish bowl.”

“We know what we are, but know not what we may be.”

“I thought of you and how you love this beauty, And walking up the long beach all alone I heard the waves breaking in measured thunder As you and I once heard their monotone. Around me were t...”

“Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.”

“Chicago is the Great American City, and it was really great to live there during a time of economic expansion and opportunity and growth. I felt like I was living at the center of the world....”

“I think that we all do heroic things, but hero is not a noun, it's a verb.”

“He said you were the only one who was bitter about S.'s suicide and the only one who really forgave him for it. The rest of us, he said, were outwardly unbitter and inwardly unforgiving.”

“A good fight scene is really a good love scene.”

“I am truly at my happiest not when I am writing an aria for an actor or making a grand political or social point. I am at my happiest when I've figured out a fun way for somebody to slip on...”

“Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something you...”

“Every time you read a poem aloud to yourself in the presence of others, you are reading it into yourself and them. Voice helps to carry words farther and deeper than the eye.”

“If Barr wants to keep defending Trump, he should take a page from one of his predecessors, Henry Stanbery, who stepped down as attorney general to serve as President Andrew Johnson's impeach...”

“He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.”

“Women who are into Lord of The Rings & The Hobbit are, like, the coolest people in the world”

“I believe in rendering to science the things that belong to science. I have no problem with evolution or discussions of the age of the Earth, for I don't believe that we come anywhere near c...”

“Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts.”

“Be a worthy worker and work will come.”

“Failed relationships can be described as so much wasted make-up.”

“One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.”

“But some secrets are too delicious not to share.”

“With all honesty, somewhere between the hello and the dreams I saw you in I fell in love.”

“The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.”

“Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.”

“Sometimes we forget about our own advantages because we focus on what we don't have. Just because you have to work a little harder at something that seems easier to others doesn't mean you'r...”

“So maybe you're asexual. But that is not all bad! I know it feels bad. You're pretty much in you're own version of the closet trying to figure it out. I've been there. I thought my liking bo...”

“All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try...”

“Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.”

“It is only when you touch the higher that you realize how low we may be among the possibilities of creation.”

“For Sayonara, literally translated, 'Since it must be so,' of all the good-bys I have heard is the most beautiful. Unlike the Auf Wiedershens and Au revoirs, it does not try to cheat itself...”

“The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.”

“I do live a decently healthy life.”

“Funny isn't it? The power of story. It's why I picked up a pen. I slay monsters, too.”

“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.”

“Too much work, too much vacation, too much of any one thing is unsound.”

“The real mechanism for corporate governance is the active involvement of the owners.”

“Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.”

“A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit's aid than he can create a world.”