Every accepted public quote

“What is the relation between Christianity and modern culture; may Christianity be maintained in a scientific age? It is this problem which modern liberalism attempts to solve.”

“Your time may come. Do not be too sad, Sam. You cannot be always torn in two. You will have to be one and whole, for many years. You have so much to enjoy and to be, and to do.”

“Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten.”

“Don't judge. I used to buy underwear because I didn't do my laundry.”

“To climb steep hills Requires slow pace at first.”

“I am one thing, my writings are another.”

“Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium,...”

“Here's to the bridge-builders, the hand-holders, the light-bringers, those extraordinary souls wrapped in ordinary lives who quietly weave threads of humanity into an inhumane world. They ar...”

“You show up in Paris, and on the drive from the airport to the hotel you're like, 'This is so cool! I want to see something! I want to go to the Eiffel Tower!' And then you leave the next mo...”

“Don't let a king or a prince or a fairytale tell you you are smaller than that or who you are meant to be.”

“Sometimes you have to get lost before you can find yourself.”

“Everything in this room is edible. Even I'm edible. But, that would be called canibalism. It is looked down upon in most societies.”

“The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable, and literature is not read.”

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”

“I threw my 20th birthday party at Brown, and I didn't even have to say to anyone not to put pictures on Facebook. Not a single picture went up. That was when I knew I'd found a solid group o...”

“When I was a child, adults would tell me not to make things up, warning me of what would happen if I did. As far as I can tell so far, it seems to involve lots of foreign travel and not havi...”

“I know you're tired but come, this is the way.”

“Courage is knowing what not to fear.”

“The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.”

“Life is like a sandwich! Birth as one slice, and death as the other. What you put in-between the slices is up to you. Is your sandwich tasty or sour? Allan Rufus.org”

“My parents were what I like to call proper musical fans. Lots of Sondheim was played in the car.”

“A whole stack of memories never equal one little hope.”

“As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.”

“The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have.”

“This new day has greeted us with no rules; unconditional opportunity. Do not dilute the power of this new day with the hardship of yesterday. Greet this day the way it has greeted you; with...”

“I'm a computer nerd. I'm behind my computer, like, 12 hours a day making new music.”

“I will not try to convince you to love me, to respect me, to commit to me. I deserve better than that; I AM BETTER THAN THAT...Goodbye.”

“In Gethsemane the holiest of all petitioners prayed three times that a certain cup might pass from Him. It did not. After that the idea that prayer is recommended to us as a sort of infallib...”

“Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possi...”

“Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never.”

“Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.”

“I've seen so many beautiful, strong, talented women stifled by male ego in rooms, and I want every young woman who feels that their music is being taken from them to know that they have a vo...”

“The ordinary man gets motivation from power and fame. The superior finds motivation in meaning and work itself.”

“Just keep moving forward and don't give a shit about what anybody thinks. Do what you have to do, for you.”

“Unconditional love is loving your kids for who they are, not for what they do ... it isn't something you will achieve every minute of every day. But it is the thought we must hold in our hea...”

“I love Karl Lagerfeld. I worship him. I was brought up in Paris, and my mum used to wear a lot of Chanel. I love the brand.”

“I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?”

“Maybe, if you can't get someone out of your head they were never meant to leave. Perhaps, they were meant to help change you into the person you have been waiting to become.”

“Have we been going up and down in business, and are those round about us as yet unaware of our Christian character? Have we never spoken to them the Word of Life? Lord, arouse us to a deep c...”

“I'm all about the little moments, don't get me wrong the big life changing moments will never be outnumbered - those are the experiences we name chapter after, but for me, its the little mom...”

“Destination is the inspiration of the man who must walk alone.”

“Major societal and individual enhancements are only achievable with extraordinary alteration of the thought process.”

“Accountability breeds response-ability.”

“Stay hungry. Stay foolish.”

“When in love with someone, they must be your priority and paramount concern in life; and there should always be reciprocation; any other scenario creates a relationship molded with anxiety.”

“The moment I said I'd finished a book, I knew what would happen. There would be a bidding war, and I would end up with someone who'd got the fattest wallet, who had bought it because I'd wri...”

“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”

“The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.”