Every accepted public quote

“Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.”

“Everyone thinks their paycheck is their wampeter. Quotes to squeegee your third eye: Thinking outside your cage (2018; 9780970491954; pg. 41)”

“Imagination is as good as many voyages - and how much cheaper!”

“When I play characters, I like playing people who just comment on stuff, stand around and talk.”

“People talk about books being an escape, but here on the tube, this one feels more like a lifeline...The motion of the train makes her head rattle, but her eyes lock on the words the way a f...”

“The young and the elderly possess assets the other need. Youths have vitality and the aged have wisdom. The aged claim being young at heart while the young claim having old head on young sho...”

“The only way to have a friend is to be one.”

“Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.”

“Philanthropist: a rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket.”

“I give myself a good cry if I need it. But then I concentrate on the good things still in my life. I don't allow myself any more self-pity than that. A little each every morning, a few tears...”

“Any man can shoot a gun, and with practice he can draw fast and shoot accurately, but that makes no difference. What counts is how you stand up when somebody is shooting back at you.”

“The winding down of summer puts me in a heavy philosophical mood.”

“For the most part, we are the determinate factor for the consequences of our life. The belief others should add importance and statute to our life is infantile and a sign of weakness. The st...”

“I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is par...”

“Books are the only things worth stealing.”

“Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.”

“Love is a clash of lightnings”

“We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.”

“There's no blueprint for where I should be. I see myself as a young, good actor who still has a lot to learn. There's nobody at any point in their career who is the finished article.”

“Some people start with the lyrics first because they know what they want to talk about and they just write a whole bunch of lyrical ideas, but for me the music tells me what to talk about.”

“If books are not good company, where shall I find it?”

“One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries.”

“Disappointment is the nurse of wisdom.”

“I remember making the all-star team in Little League when I was around 11 years old. I was not a great athlete, but I loved it, so making starting second base in the all-star was great for m...”

“Let your requests be made known unto God.”

“We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito.”

“I'm a sucker for gag reels and teaser trailers for new seasons. One of the great parts of panels, especially on a show like 'Supernatural,' which can be so dark, it's fun to get up there and...”

“Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.”

“I googled the quote 'Power means not having to respond.' Nothing happened.”

“Grownups have a tendency to talk themselves out of things, saying it will never work, but kids are fabulously optimistic.”

“But then one is always excited by descriptions of money changing hands. It's much more fundamental than sex.”

“Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.”

“Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.”

“For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, wh...”

“Society creates societal values and mores for all to follow, at least in public; most however, deviate from these values and do so privately.”

“No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.”

“I remember when the results of the All India Engineering exams came out. I ranked 7th. I even got a scholarship. But it was during the sixth semester of my engineering course that I decided...”

“You don't see too many atheists on the deathbed. They all start cramming then.”

“Instead of paying more attention upon self-improvement. Nowadays, people are spending their valuable time to pray for LOVE. These people are similar to children who're trying to hold water f...”

“We all ought to understand we're on our own. Believing in Santa Claus doesn't do kids any harm for a few years but it isn't smart for them to continue waiting all their lives for him to come...”

“One cannot get through life without pain. ... What we can do is choose how to use the pain life presents to us.”

“Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.”

“If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.”

“Some people will go to the opening of an envelope. They live their lives in the public eye and get off on it, they need it. They need that kind of adoration. If their name isn't in the tablo...”

“Until we have the courage to recognize cruelty for what it is... we cannot expect things to be much better in this world... We cannot have peace among men whose hearts delight in killing any...”

“The More Loving One Looking up at the stars, I know quite well That, for all they care, I can go to hell, But on earth indifference is the least We have to dread from man or beast. How shoul...”

“I will say again that I have never, and would never, harm a child. It sickens me that people have written untrue things about me.”

“Enlightenment is the complete flowering of body, mind and the soul.”