Every accepted public quote

“The downfall of a man, is not the end of his life.”

“As he took her hand he gave her all she had been waiting for-- a shiver down her spine.”

“Whereas story is processed in the mind in a straightforward manner, poetry bypasses rational thought and goes straight to the limbic system and lights it up like a brushfire. It's the crack...”

“A muscle is like a car. If you want it to run well early in the morning, you have to warm it up.”

“Money is human happiness in the abstract.”

“After all, the only thing harder than allowing yourself to care is pretending that you don't.”

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”

“I'm 5-foot-5, and I'll wear a big parka and put the hood up, and nobody gives me a second glance.”

“As a vulnerability researcher, the greatest barrier I see is our low tolerance for vulnerability. We're almost afraid to be happy. We feel like it's inviting disaster.”

“If there was a God. I would spit in his face for subjecting me to this. If there was a Devil, I would sell my sould to make it end. If there was something Higher that controlled out f***ing...”

“The profoundest of all sensualities is the sense of truth and the next deepest sensual experience is the sense of justice.”

“Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live”

“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.”

“Photographs are just light and time,”

“You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks, or even months over-analyzing a situation; trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could've, would've happened... or you can just leave...”

“You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.”

“Love is keeping the promise anyway.”

“No adolescent ever wants to be understood, which is why they complain about being misunderstood all the time.”

“Don't make yourself small. Not for anyone. If someone tells you you're too much... too loud, too sensitive, too fierce, too caring, too intellectual, too optimistic, too realistic, too logic...”

“There's backlash about everything I do.”

“Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.”

“I had to push exposition through dialogue, which is really, really hard for an actor do.”

“One changes their beliefs numerous times over the course of a lifetime; even those they defended and supported for years.”

“She was like a Rubik's Cube in a blind man's hand - impossible to figure out. And yet I was the blind man determined to try.”

“Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now.”

“Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.”

“I knew from my own life experience that when someone shows genuine interest in your learning and development, even if only for ten minutes in a busy day, it matters. It matters especially fo...”

“The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.”

“I think everyone has experienced those boring arguments about whose turn it is to do the dishes.”

“I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.”

“Although my stance on responsible citizenship made sense to many Israelis, the intelligentsia could not, as you say in English, get their heads around it. 'Racist' and 'fascist' were the kne...”

“There will always be someone else with a different view than you. I appreciate them and would never say that they are wrong. I hope that they would give me that courtesy also.”

“Veterans Day is an acknowledgment that those willing to make the ultimate sacrifice for our country - and their families - deserve our admiration and respect today and every day.”

“The stars up close to the moon were pale; they got brighter and braver the farther they got out of the circle of light ruled by the giant moon”

“My favorite literary heroine is Jo March. It is hard to overstate what she meant to a small, plain girl called Jo, who had a hot temper and a burning ambition to be a writer.”

“If you want to forget something, never hate it. Everything that you hate is engraved upon your heart,if you want to let go of something, you cannot hate.”

“Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.”

“If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off... no matter what they say.”

“One of the things that always fascinated me about the Renaissance was that it was a time both of great scientific discovery and also of superstition and belief in magic. And so it was a peri...”

“Just give me a comfortable couch, a dog, a good book, and a woman. Then if you can get the dog to go somewhere and read the book, I might have a little fun.”

“I accept the Old Testament as more of an action movie: blood, car chases, evacuations, a lot of special effects, seas dividing, mass murder, adultery. The children of God are running amok, w...”

“I love Australia; it was a really, really nice experience for me. It's such a beautiful place. The people are beautiful - like, really beautiful - and they are beautiful in terms of their pe...”

“Sometimes things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them.”

“What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.”

“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”

“Drama can feel like therapy whereas comedy feels like there's been a pressure and a weight lifted off of you. You come to work and you laugh all day, you go home and you feel light and there...”

“I barely know him. I guess that is every relationship. You start with nothing and maybe end with everything.”

“Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.”