Every accepted public quote

“I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.”

“A broken heart is just the growing pains necessary so that you can love more completely when the real thing comes along.”

“It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.”

“Your wealth is where your friends are.”

“Rituals are a good signal to your unconscious that it is time to kick in.”

“The only way round is through.”

“Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold.”

“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway an...”

“Why is female vulnerability still only acceptable when it's neuroticised and personal; when it feeds back on itself? Why do people still not get it when we handle vulnerability like philosop...”

“Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.”

“A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.”

“Wake up with a smile and go after life.... Live it, enjoy it, taste it, smell it, feel it.”

“Potential has a shelf life.”

“A good horse should be seldom spurred.”

“She burned too bright for this world.”

“What grinds me the most is we're sending kids out into the world who don't know how to balance a checkbook, don't know how to apply for a loan, don't even know how to properly fill out a job...”

“Harry Potter is awesome.”

“A friend told me that teenage girls are always looking for someone to pin their dreams on. That doesn't make it any less weird though.”

“People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.”

“We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.”

“Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others.”

“Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.”

“How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.”

“I made that a point when I was creating my sound from the beginning, I didn't want to sound like anybody. Once I kind of found my own sound, I mastered it.”

“Hollywood is not suited for me, and I am not suited for it.”

“I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.”

“Some people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out.”

“Everyone is pretty good at learning. Very few are good at doing.”

“I do my best to work out 5 days a week. There are times when I can only get in 3 days a week because I am traveling or just need rest due to a hectic schedule. But working out is always a pr...”

“People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.”

“The job of feets is walking, but their hobby is dancing.”

“I get nervous around girls for the first time. Once I'm in, I can take the reins and go. It's just the initial approach I'm really bad at.”

“Rather than giving people an inflated view of themselves, we need to give them concrete reasons to feel good about themselves.”

“Silence is the mother of truth.”

“One! two! and through and through The vorpal blade went snickersnack! He left it dead, and with its head He went galumphing back.”

“Oh, what a tangled web we weave...when first we practice to deceive.”

“Bruce Springsteen really got any creative person's dream career, and his good-heartedness and good-spiritedness are part of it: both because it made the people behind the scenes want to do t...”

“Life is just so painful and messy and hard and worth it and all that stuff.”

“Stop giving your life away to other people.”

“Doubt will not bring people anywhere. Those who succeed are those who make decisions and dare to take risks.”

“The funny thing about writing is that whether you're doing well or doing it poorly, it looks the exact same. That's actually one of the main ways that writing is different from ballet dancin...”

“"Heroes do whats right... Not whats easy."”

“I like Valentino a lot - they never use actresses in their campaigns.”

“Be one and be civilized. By civilized I don't mean that phony kind of civilized pretense where you pretend to be egalitarian, yet the moment your kid brings home a partner of color, or of a...”

“Instead of focusing on, 'Oh, there's a black lady who plays videogames,' focus on that there's another person out there who loves the same stuff that you do.”

“If a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a success?”

“When you get to a place where you understand that love and belonging, your worthiness, is a birthright and not something you have to earn, anything is possible.”

“Casting all your care upon Him; for he careth for you.”