Every accepted public quote

“Great, tell me when you've defeated Voldemort for me, will you?”

“It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.”

“The thing about fantasy - there are certain things you just don't do in fantasy.”

“The best things in life make you sweaty.”

“Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.”

“How casually and unobservedly we make all our most valued acquaintances.”

“Without silence, there cannot be any real appreciation in life, which is as delicate in its inner fabric as a closed rosebud.”

“Hong Kong is a wonderful, mixed-up town where you've got great food and adventure. First and foremost, it's a great place to experience China in a relatively accessible way.”

“To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can see. The Archbishop of Canterbury doesn't believe that.”

“If all the year were playing holidays To sport would be as tedious as to work.”

“Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in principles or rules or expectations or advice, however widely circulated”

“But you're the only one, Scarlet. You'll always be the only one.”

“If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.”

“It has become fashionable to speak of the Enlightenment as an idiosyncratic construction by European males in a bygone era, one way of thinking among many different constructions generated a...”

“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.”

“You never know how your kids are going to turn out. You can raise them with all the best intentions, and then they're own people, and they have their own inner conflicts. You just hope you'v...”

“Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them.”

“Love brings to light a lover's noble and hidden qualities-his rare and exceptional traits: it is thus liable to be deceptive of his normal qualities.”

“Focus on making yourself better, not on thinking that you are better.”

“I won't have any competitive instincts in any sports, other than golf. I can't see being competitive in sports any more.”

“It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.”

“There's a difference between really loving someone and loving the idea of her.”

“I work so hard to make that sure I'm successful. If you're positive and really excited and enthusiastic about what you're doing, it's going to happen, and it's going to happen big time.”

“Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.”

“Why, a four-year-old child could understand this report. Run out and find me a four-year-old child.”

“People are scared to have a strong opinion because, with social media, almost everyone lives the life of a celebrity.”

“It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend's folly.”

“Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.”

“Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.”

“There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West. Some courage and some wisdom, blended in measure. If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it wo...”

“Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.”

“The medieval Islamic world, from Central Asia to the shores of the Atlantic, was a world where scholars and men of learning flourished. But because we have tended to see Islam as the enemy o...”

“Mindset is knowing that time will eventually reveal what is making you sick.”

“In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.”

“A song has to take on character, shape, body and influence people to an extent that they use it for their own devices. It must affect them not just as a song, but as a lifestyle.”

“Routine is the god of every social system; it is the seventh heaven of business, the essential component in the success of every factory, the ideal of every statesman.”

“I believe forgiveness is the best form of love in any relationship. It takes a strong person to say they're sorry and an even stronger person to forgive.”

“Liturgy is like a strong tree whose beauty is derived from the continuous renewal of its leaves, but whose strength comes from the old trunk, with solid roots in the ground.”

“But no. There is a difference between the truth and what we wish were true.”

“The truth must be quite plain, if one could just clear away the litter.”

“Jesus said, 'The Kingdom of Heaven is within you.' I think if he lived nowadays, instead of 'kingdom,' he would have said, 'dimension.' And 'heaven' refers to a sense of vastness or spacious...”

“The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.”

“What I learned is that acting is to a large extent about trying to stave off self-doubt long enough to be natural and real onstage.”

“I have a wonderfully hedonistic appetite, and if I wasn't really strict with myself, I'd weigh 300 pounds. I'm not good with moderation.”

“If grace belongs to God, there are those who say that luck belongs to the Devil and that he looks after his own.”

“Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.”

“The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger--but recognize the opportunit...”

“Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water it runs between his fingers, and yet, if his hands be but wet as though with dew, behold...”