Every accepted public quote

“Nowadays, people read too many books to appreciate any.”

“People challenge my nerd cred all the time. I just show them the photo of me winning my middle-school science fair, wearing my Casio calculator watch and eyeglasses so big they look like the...”

“no matter how ugly the world gets or how stupid it shows me it is, I always have faith”

“I think, in the end, we are all our own individual person.”

“About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.”

“If you look deeply into anyone's eyes, you will find yourself.”

“You cannot connect with anyone except through reality.”

“We do not ask Israeli Arabs to share in the Zionist dream. We are asking them to accept that Israel is a Jewish state - the only one in the world.”

“Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.”

“My dad grew up in Banbridge, Northern Ireland, desperate to get to London. I grew up in London, so I don't know what it's like to yearn for the big city from a small town.”

“Dead people can be our heroes because they cant disappoint us later; they only improve over time, as we forget more and more about them.”

“I love St. Ives and Fowey. I have childhood memories of the Headland Hotel, where 'The Witches' was filmed, standing on the Fistral Beach. There's something about packing a bikini and Wellin...”

“All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.”

“All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.”

“That which does not kill me makes me stronger.”

“I just want to do something that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter.”

“Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”

“I will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don't know if I would want to publish again after Harry Potter.”

“In the final analysis it is between you and God, it was never between you and them anyway.”

“I'm really looking for an agenda that looks at safety for our communities beyond policing.”

“Sacrifice, discipline and prayer are essential. We gain strength through God's word. We receive grace from the sacrament. And when we fumble due to sin - and it's gonna happen - confession p...”

“Be happy without picking flaws.”

“A woman, the more careful she is about her face, is commonly the more careless about her house.”

“No good fish goes anywhere without a porpoise.”

“Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.”

“There is a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.”

“Why do beautiful songs make you sad?' 'Because they aren't true.' 'Never?' 'Nothing is beautiful and true.”

“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”

“sometimes the quiet ones are yelling on the inside”

“Forgiveness is God's command.”

“I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility, which religion is powerless to besto...”

“I shopped for body shapers for the first time in my life and I was horrified. They were thick - it was like wearing workout clothes and they all had a leg band on one side that showed throug...”

“Sometimes the strongest thing you will ever do will be to let go of someone. It will be painful, you will suffer guilt, and you will second-guess yourself, but for your own sanity and qualit...”

“I was a studious child, heavily into academics. For the longest time, I wouldn't talk.”

“A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.”

“I don't go looking for trouble. Trouble usually finds me.”

“Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.”

“He who never reads will never be read; he who never quotes will never be quoted; and he who will not use the thoughts of others' brains proves that he has no brains of his own.”

“Say it with flowers.”

“He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.”

“I'm sorry to say cancer can kill you, but it doesn't make you a better person.”

“Before I would hurt a child, I would slit my wrists.”

“I think when you're working with a character that another writer is acting as - for lack of a better word - custodian of, your obligation as a professional is to not do anything that violate...”

“I love you. Remember. They cannot take it”

“It's very hard to find your own words - and you don't actually exist until you have your own words.”

“Great issues develop from small beginnings.”

“Did you ever think that in a past life Alec was an old woman with ninety cats who was always yelling at the neighborhood kids to get off her lawn? Because I do,”

“A helpful thing for me has always been - this is from a great acting teacher Declan Donnellan - is this beautiful way of expressing how and why people do things that other people may not do....”