Every accepted public quote

“What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.”

“Dogmatic ideological parties tend to splinter the political and social fabric of a nation.”

“A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.”

“When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.”

“A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.”

“1. Modern thinking is a mysterious entity, it is covered in blood and is two meters tall, its smile opens your soul to you and its smile descends to the earth and opens a portal to the dimen...”

“Until an hour before the Devil fell, God thought him beautiful in Heaven.”

“For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest effi...”

“We cannot become what we want by remaining what we are.”

“Extremism is no more the monopoly of Islam than it is the monopoly of other religions, including Christianity.”

“Everyone has a sense of humor. If you don't laugh at jokes, you probably laugh at opinions.”

“Things are in their essence what we choose to make them. A thing is, according to the mode in which one looks at it.”

“The vote is the most powerful nonviolent tool we have.”

“You're beautiful, but you're empty...One couldn't die for you. Of course, an ordinary passerby would think my rose looked just like you. But my rose, all on her own, is more important than a...”

“But merely being tradition does not make something worthy, Kadash. We can't just assume that because something is old it is right.”

“I kept loving and loving and loving. Every waking hour, I marveled on how these moments would make made me feel. I wanted to love the world and be the change it so deliciously craved.”

“How fleeting are all human passions compared to the massive continuity of ducks.”

“I very much favor democracy, but when there is a contradiction between democratic and Jewish values, the Jewish and Zionist values are more important.”

“I'm never going to be in something as commercially successful as 'Harry Potter' ever again. It's impossible. So that gives me incredible freedom to go off and make the slightly off-the-wall...”

“The only true borders lie between day and night, between life and death, between hope and loss.”

“Don't panic. Are you sitting? You probably don't need to sit. Well, possibly. At least lean on something.”

“I can handle the craziness some of the time, maybe most of the time. But I know I can't handle it all of the time.”

“Tonight I can write the saddest lines I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.”

“I like to see the glass as half full, hopefully of jack daniels.”

“It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.”

“The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.”

“He was conscious of nothing except the blankness of the page in front of him, the itching of the skin above his ankle, the blaring of the music, and a slight booziness caused by the gin.”

“I feel like no one starts entertainment with an impure intention, but somewhere along the way, lines become blurred and you're no longer sure which way is up and which way is down.”

“I've never understood having crushes on people who you don't know in real life.”

“A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.”

“The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.”

“Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.”

“Whoever is happy will make others happy.”

“Loving's pretty easy. It's letting someone love you that's hard.”

“There isn't any questioning the fact that some people enter your life, at the exact point of need, want or desire - it's sometimes a coincendence and most times fate, but whatever it is, I a...”

“If you make your woman your EVERYTHING - then your EVERYTHING hangs on her perfection. And we all know she doesn't have perfection any more than you do. Do not look for spiritual fulfillment...”

“All around the dining hall, you can feel the rejuvenating effect that a good meal can bring on. The way it can make people kinder, funnier, more optimistic, and remind them it's not a mistak...”

“The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.”

“The only truth is music.”

“I'm not trying to be sexy. It's just my way of expressing myself when I move around.”

“Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now...”

“Sometimes I wish I was more shrewd.”

“Each thinking mind is a political mind.”

“Win or lose, we go shopping after the election.”

“To be pleasant, gentle, calm and self-possessed: this is the basis of good taste and charm in a woman. No matter how amorous or passionate you may be, as long as you are straightforward and...”

“Everybody's got high expectations for me. I just don't want to let anybody down.”

“Emotion is the most powerful driver of thoughts and actions. If you can figure your emotion, you can figure your thoughts and actions.”

“I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.”