Every accepted public quote

“Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof.”

“We can't stop a baby in Africa from starving to death... but we can afford enough technology and weaponry to blow the world up a million times over.”

“I've never been one of the cool people at school, but then again, I don't get the people who are cool. It's not that I don't like them, it's just that they don't interest me.”

“The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.”

“Hope is a dangerous thing, Raisa thought. Once kindled, it's hard to put out. It makes wise people into fools.”

“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”

“Only write if you can't not.”

“Every so often, one should a challenge the impossible; which is simply a rehearsal for the less difficult.”

“I lived in Miami for a while, in a section with a lot of really old people. The average age in my apartment house was dead.”

“Our job is to represent the truth of human nature, whether you're playing a tender love story that's set in a coffee shop or whether you're in 'The Avengers,' which is set in a Manhattan whi...”

“I've heard about productions where it still happens: yellow face, taping up the eyes. It's hard to talk about it in a constructive way.”

“I want to be a woman that inspires by being.”

“If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves.”

“Life is a funny thing. We only get so many years to live it, so we have to do everything we can to make sure those years are as full as they can be. We shouldn't waste time on things that mi...”

“Be worthy love, and love will come.”

“Creatures whose main spring is curiosity will enjoy the accumulating of fact, far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.”

“Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being...”

“Ah, pay no heed if your enemies laugh. They'll not be able to once you lop off their heads.”

“I have a theory about marriage, Monsieur Boustouler. And it's that nearly always you will know within two weeks if it's going to work. It's astonishing how many people remain shackled for ye...”

“Love is a decision - not an emotion!”

“You can have everything you want if you can put your heart and soul into everything you do.”

“And on the subject of burning books: I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful political connections or their great wealth, who, all over th...”

“It took me a while to learn the true meaning of patience and surrender, but I have finally accepted that healing doesn't happen on our schedule. It doesn't have a clock or a calendar.”

“Do I dare Disturb the universe? In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.”

“Who covets more is evermore a slave.”

“And I'm slightly in love with Scarlett Johansson: she's just stunning. And she's bright, which is incredibly sexy.”

“Without attachment, a naked body is merely a lifeless sex-toy.”

“I found being a teenager quite difficult, actually. I put a lot of pressure on myself, and now, looking back at it, I really wish that I had relaxed and just enjoyed it more.”

“Give it air & let the scar on your soul reveal itself, because, like the body, it too was made to heal itself.”

“Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.”

“We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.”

“This is really a new NHL and it's built on speed and young guys.”

“(A country where) the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.”

“Whatever advice you give, be short.”

“What greater gift than the love of a cat.”

“Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.”

“I have come to accept the feeling of not knowing where I am going. And I have trained myself to love it. Because it is only when we are suspended in mid-air with no landing in sight, that we...”

“Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.”

“The world I live in is not all white people, not all straight people, and it's not all people who have their acts together, either.”

“Maybe each human being lives in a unique world, a private world different from those inhabited and experienced by all other humans. . . If reality differs from person to person, can we speak...”

“When your lips caress mine, even winter fails to chill me.”

“I do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if you're well-known. There is an innate respect for privacy in Edinburgh people, and I also think they're used to s...”

“when you came you cried and everybody smiled with joy; when you go smile and let the world cry for you.”

“It never gets easier, missing you. And sometimes I wonder if it ever will.”

“War between religions and science will never end; because they speak difference languages. There is a lack of communication between them.”

“The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.”

“I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.”

“Who belonged to no one, who belonged to everyone. Who had nothing, who wanted everything.”