Every accepted public quote

“We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success.”

“What is love but a word? A feeling roughly concordant to fear? A fantasy that breaks through the heartbreak and endows the defeated with bravery?”

“I think you have a moral responsibility when you've been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently.”

“I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.”

“Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?' 'That is the only time a man can be brave,' his father told him.”

“When I chose Mississippi State, of course I dreamed about being a big-time college football player. But I'm so grateful that actually became a reality - and it became a reality in a small to...”

“You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.”

“I've got to tell you, I've played real characters before and people always bring up this word 'impersonation,' and I'm never entirely sure what it means.”

“You can make anything by writing.”

“Most bands don't work out. A small unit democracy is very, very difficult. Very, very difficult.”

“We are never alone We are all wolves Howling to the same moon.”

“Faith is, above all, openness; an act of trust in the unknown.”

“For teenage kids, they feel a pressure to sweep things under the rug because they feel like they're not important enough to have problems.”

“Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.”

“Books and all forms of writing have always been objects of terror to those who seek to suppress the truth.”

“It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.”

“All we have is now. And our promise to make it better.”

“It is night: now do all leaping fountains speak louder. And my soul too is a leaping fountain. It is night: only now do all songs of lovers awaken. And my soul too is the song of a lover. So...”

“If you hit bottom, there's a whole lot of people here to help you up”

“Directing is more what I would like to get into eventually. Frankly, I feel like it would be a waste if I didn't because I've spent so much time on film sets, and I know how they work, and I...”

“I'm a visual writer, so it's fitting that my first brush with 'Red Queen' was an image. I had the idea of a teenage girl in an arena, a bit like 'Gladiator,' and she's about to be executed....”

“There is beauty when something works and it works intuitively.”

“Embrace the probability of your imminent death....and know there is nothing i can do to save you.”

“Love looks through a telescope; envy through a microscope.”

“Oprah is a wealthy person, pack leader of the human world. So many see her as the dominant one, as the authority figure. The way I view her energy, seeing her on TV, is a very calm, quiet en...”

“Right, well, he'd been sick for a while and his nurse said to him, 'You seem to be feeling better this morning,' and Isben looked at her and said, 'On the contrary,' and then he died.”

“The most believable lies are the ones that are atleast a little bit true.”

“Music touches places beyond our touching.”

“There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.”

“My world is not spectacle and explosion. It's two people talking.”

“Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone. This simple goodness shines straight from their hearts and only asks to be loved.”

“I pretty much left full-time, formal education when I was 11, so that was when I was taken out of the school system... The longest stretch I would go back for was a term and a half when I wa...”

“Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.”

“I was asked to sing with Mavis Staples on a gospel compilation called 'Oh Happy Day.' And, you know, other than being totally intimidated at the prospect of singing with Mavis, I was honored...”

“But I was not in the band, because I suffer from the kind of tone deafness that is generally associated with actual deafness”

“Where there is anger there is always pain underneath.”

“Sweets to the sweet.”

“The sport is called artistic gymnastics. So you do have to be a little bit of an actress.”

“Curiouser and curiouser.”

“Everyone thinks writers must know more about the inside of the human head, but that's wrong. They know less, that's why they write. Trying to find out what everyone else takes for granted.”

“Come friends, it's not too late to seek a newer world.”

“Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.”

“If you want what is right, do what is right.”

“You are the shuckiest shuck faced shuck in the world!”

“Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.”

“Young people are often ignored and disregarded, but they are acute observers and learners of everything we say and do.”

“Fan fictions are an alternate universe.”

“To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.”