Every accepted public quote

“Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been.”

“Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.”

“Even the strongest man needs friends.”

“Back when we was in school in Mississippi, we had Little Black Sambo. That's what you learned: Anytime something was not good, or anytime something was bad in some kinda way, it had to be ca...”

“Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.”

“It's very dramatic when two people come together to work something out. It's easy to take a gun and annihilate your opposition, but what is really exciting to me is to see people with differ...”

“In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin.”

“Remember your connection with the cosmos. Remember your connection with the infinity and that remembrance will give you the freedom.”

“The ways of fate are indeed hard to understand. If there is not some compensation hereafter, then the world is a cruel jest.”

“You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.”

“A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.”

“I observed once to Goethe ... that when a friend is with us we do not think the same of him as when he is away. He replied, "Yes! because the absent friend is yourself, and he exists only in...”

“I am a cage, in search of a bird.”

“Everyone has an opportunity to die honestly, but not everyone has enough courage to live honestly.”

“I resent the idea that people would blame the messenger for the message, rather than looking at the content of the message itself.”

“People with a grudge against the world are always dangerous. They seem to think life owes them something. I've known many an invalid who has suffered worse and been cut off from life much mo...”

“The basis of optimism is sheer terror.”

“My lungs suck at being lungs”

“I have bursts of being a lady, but it doesn't last long.”

“I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we meet?”

“A towel, [The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy] says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value. You can wrap it aroun...”

“The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.”

“Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.”

“Steadily, the room shrank, till the book thief could touch the shelves within a few small steps. She ran the back of her hand along the first shelf, listening to the shuffle of her fingernai...”

“This inhuman place makes human monsters.”

“The two of us, two lost keys of the different doors, once strangers and now a souvenir of pain.”

“I aspire to be an old man with an old wife laughing at old jokes from a wild youth.”

“I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.”

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade w...”

“We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”

“In the end, there will always be a fundamental difference of perspective between New Zealand and Australia on defense, whoever is in government.”

“It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.”

“Time goes by: reputation increases, ability declines.”

“There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.”

“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”

“Failure is constructive feedback that tells you to try a different approach to accomplish what you want.”

“My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.”

“I'm a real Londoner. We have very grey weather in London, and I think it encourages a very eclectic and crazy fashion sense. I mix high-street stuff with more high-end fashion, and I love vi...”

“The best thing I've learned is, if you're going out, never go out alone - you leave yourself vulnerable. If you've got someone else there you trust, they can say, be wary of that person. I p...”

“If people refuse to look at you in a new light and they can only see you for what you were, only see you for the mistakes you've made, if they don't realize that you are not your mistakes, t...”

“Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice.”

“Still, they have one thing I envy. Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.”

“Keep your mind open. The meaning of things lies in how people perceive them. The same thing could mean different meanings to the same people at different times.”

“It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.”

“You are not weak. You are not indecisive. You are strong. Fierce. Capable beyond measure.”

“When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching -- they are your family.”

“Learning about the way people process information and their emotions is hugely helpful to my work.”

“I think the actresses who are really successful are the ones who are comfortable in their own skins and still look human.”