Every accepted public quote

“... And the boy whose hair remained the color of lemons forever.”

“I first read 'Lolita' when I was 16, which I think is a little bit young. But it was a thrilling and disturbing read because it was the first time I really sensed that you could have an unre...”

“We make choices but are constantly foiled by happenstance.”

“Never respond to an angry person with a fiery comeback, even if he deserves it...Don't allow his anger to become your anger.”

“A-list stars go to Comic-Con to woo the nerd demographic.”

“A world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a lot less enjoyable.”

“I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.”

“I am a part of all I have read.”

“My point is, life is about balance. The good and the bad. The highs and the lows. The pina and the colada.”

“Start small and keep going.”

“Your greatest achievement is to love me.”

“Never live your life in someone else's shadow because you will never awake the giant within you.”

“I love Steve Carell and Will Ferrell - they're my heroes.”

“Instead of the traditional emphasis on the sanctity of life, bioethics began to stress the quality of life, meaning that many damaged humans, young and old, don't qualify for personhood beca...”

“To me, constructive criticism is when people take ownership of their ideas. That's why I don't listen to anything that's anonymous. But it's hard; when there's something hurtful out there, I...”

“It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success.”

“Jose Mourinho is one of the best managers with whom I have worked. I had a chance not only to have him as a coach but as a colleague, a friend, a big brother. I had a chance to learn from hi...”

“Your words can proclaim moral values, self-righteousness and virtue, but only actions and behavior determine your integrity.”

“Punctuality is the thief of time.”

“Take time out to be kind to others and kindness will find its way back to you”

“When I was on the '70s Show,' I had that and I had 'Punk'd' and I had my own production company. That pretty much sealed up all my time.”

“Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.”

“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”

“One person's craziness is another person's reality.”

“But what I was really thinking was that you talk about him like...like you talk about a piece of decadent chocolate cake.”

“Through zeal, knowledge is gotten; through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost.”

“I don't care if you danced naked on the roof of the Little Palace with him. I love you, Alina, even the part of you that loved him.”

“For me, people are like the black boxes found in the debris of airplane crashes.”

“Life flashes by before we can catch our breath; hold those you love close and every so often reach out and caressed their face with a smile.”

“For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to n...”

“Bankruptcy is a legal proceeding in which you put your money in your pants pocket and give your coat to your creditors.”

“A best friend is the only one that walks into your life when the world has walked out.”

“There is no death! the stars go down To rise upon some other shore, And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, They shine for ever more.”

“The darkest hour of any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.”

“An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.”

“I understand that the average person can't imagine damaging their looks in any way if it could be avoided. But I don't value my physical beauty to the point where I would not do something I...”

“The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.”

“Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don't believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.”

“One of the first papers I wrote at the University of Wisconsin, in 1977, was on stem cells. I realized that if I changed the environment that these cells were in, I could turn the cells into...”

“There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.”

“There are lots of times when I'm a very good boyfriend, but there are times when I'm useless. I mean, I'm a mess around the house. I talk nonstop. I become obsessed with things.”

“Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so kind.”

“Nothing is more natural than mutual misunderstanding; the contrary is always surprising. I believe that one never agrees on anything except by mistake, and that all harmony among human being...”

“No new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace.”

“I don't know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change.”

“I care about women's rights and reproductive rights and my gay friends being able to keep their marriages official. You don't want your genre to disown you for it - and I don't think they wo...”

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”

“You must strive to multiply bread so that it suffices for the tables of mankind, and not rather favor an artificial control of birth, which would be irrational, in order to diminish the numb...”