Every accepted public quote

“It sounds as if you'd like to be God.”

“We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he today that sheds his blood with me; Shall be my brother.”

“It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.”

“This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.”

“I don't do what I'm told, but I might do what you want if you ask me nicely.”

“The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.”

“Music is another planet.”

“I've met many irresponsible people in my life but never an irresponsible cat.”

“Be brave to stand for what you believe in even if you stand alone.”

“I cut the feet out of my control top pantyhose to wear under these white pants and that was the ah-ha moment that started Spanx. My own butt was my own inspiration!”

“I'm not a great believer in marriages as an institution, or even in very long term relationships. I'm not sure we're built that way.”

“I don't paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality.”

“If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.”

“When it's hard to to get through another hour and another minute, refuse to believe the lies of darkness, make a conscious decision to focus on light and practice gratitude for what you have...”

“Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.”

“Life is nothing without a little chaos to make it interesting.”

“You might be looking for reasons but there are no reasons.”

“It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that, to break a man's spirit is devil's work.”

“We hold on too long to peoples words. The thing is, people talk a lot of shit. More often than not they haven't the slightest clue on who they are, they'll speak in sentences to fill the voi...”

“I can learn to live with guilt. I don't care about being good.”

“The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.”

“We need an adult in the White House. When making life-or-death, war-or-peace decisions, a president can't just pop off or lash out irrationally.”

“Young men, trust God, and make the future bright with blessing. Old men, trust God, and magnify him for all the mercies of the past.”

“Mistakes have the power to turn you into something better than you were before.”

“The world does not need another credit card.”

“What a slut time is. She screws everybody...”

“If you're talking to a man who wouldn't fight with you under any circumstances whatsoever, then you're talking to someone for whom you have absolutely no respect.”

“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.”

“Trump knows he's facing some pretty strong criminal liability when he leaves office, one way or another. Even if a sitting president can't be indicted, he's got to know his future looks like...”

“Venus is a walking, living, breathing legend.”

“He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.”

“Morality is just a fiction used by the herd of inferior human beings to hold back the few superior men.”

“Ah, what happiness it is to be with people who are all happy, to press hands, press cheeks, smile into eyes.”

“When you see people your own age afflicted and experiencing life-threatening illnesses, I think it prompts you to apply to yourself the philosophy, 'I want to do the best I know how to do ev...”

“No shame in saying that I felt a loneliness drifting through me. Funny how it was, everyone perched in their own little world with the deep need to talk, each person with their own tale, beg...”

“Having an eye for beauty isn't the same thing as a weakness...except possibly when it comes to you.”

“When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur.”

“Send not to know For whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.”

“There was beauty in the idea of freedom, but it was an illusion. Every human heart was chained by love.”

“Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones. A legacy is etched into the minds of others and the stories they share about you.”

“Within the family unit, you have people you grew up with who are supposed to be your brother, father, or your mother who are almost like strangers and acquaintances.”

“He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more.”

“I have felt for the last 10 years I have had this battle; I've been fighting so hard to have an education. It's been this uphill struggle. I was Warner Bros' pain in the butt. I was their sc...”

“The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.”

“I think, as an actor, and particularly if you are playing the lead in something, you have to view yourself as the head of department for the cast. All of the other departments are accountabl...”

“This world in which we live needs beauty in order not to sink into despair. It is beauty, like truth, which brings joy to the heart of man and is that precious fruit which resists the year a...”

“The internet has been a boon and a curse for teenagers.”

“No amount of regretting can change the past, and no amount of worrying can change the future.”