Every accepted public quote

“Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.”

“It's funny: I always imagined when I was a kid that adults had some kind of inner toolbox full of shiny tools: the saw of discernment, the hammer of wisdom, the sandpaper of patience. But th...”

“You can't see the bat hit the ball if you're generating any bat speed. If you're just laying the bat through the strike zone, sure, maybe.”

“The more one judges, the less one loves.”

“He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.”

“The ALS ice bucket challenge was really the most brilliant publicity stunt of 2014, and it has brought worldwide awareness for a barely-known disease.”

“"There are no rules to creativity."”

“I sometimes think that never blows so red The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled; That every Hyacinth the Garden wears Dropt in her Lap from some once lovely Head.”

“People like to see me fight. A name can only take you so far. There are only a few fighters out of the thousands of boxers out there that have name recognition. I'm definitely not upset by t...”

“If you play it straight it's funny - the best comedy is always played straight down the middle. The adjustment is understanding from the screenplay that a moment is hilarious.”

“Time management is about life management.”

“We would never comment on private correspondence.”

“I've got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen.”

“Build traditions of family vacations and trips and outings. These memories will never be forgotten by your children.”

“I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.”

“The man of wisdom is never of two minds; the man of benevolence never worries; the man of courage is never afraid.”

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells.”

“It's important to be heroic, ambitious, productive, efficient, creative, and progressive, but these qualities don't necessarily nurture the soul. The soul has different concerns, of equal va...”

“Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.”

“I am a glutton for tranquility.”

“In 'The Hunger Games,' in most people's idea, in terms of rebellion or a civil-war situation, that would meet the criteria for a necessary war. These people are oppressed, their children are...”

“Mastery over misery is no mystery. Time helps but much depends on what one does with time.”

“Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.”

“You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.”

“If you are in a toxic environment, you will waste away.”

“A sky full of stars and he was staring at her.”

“Everyone who has ever built anywhere a "new heaven" first found the power thereto in his own hell.”

“I really don't believe in magic.”

“I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.”

“Our men think earning money and ordering around others is where power lies. They don't think power is in the hands of the woman who takes care of everyone all day long, and gives birth to th...”

“With anything new, if it's weird or cool, it will catch people's attention. But slowly, that new thing, if it catches on, it becomes a trend itself.”

“There were a few years there when I was just so enamored with the idea of living some sort of famous person's lifestyle that really isn't suited to me.”

“I found the experience of falling in love or being in love was a death: a death of everything. You kind of watch yourself die in a wonderful way, and you experience for the briefest moment -...”

“I have spoken words of hope. But only of hope. Hope is not victory.”

“What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy, and smug they might be.”

“Acting never was about the money for me... Maybe in 10 years, I'll be able to appreciate the fact that I am financially stable and independent and I don't have to make bad choices. I can be...”

“I've put my genius into my life; I've only put my talent into my works.”

“The heart is the throne of God and the heart is the mother of all the desires!”

“The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.”

“The astronomer will believe that the most erratic comet will yet accomplish its journey and revisit our sphere; but we give up those for lost who have not wandered one-half the distance from...”

“Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means...”

“I meet hundreds of people, and I'm not going to remember them. But every single one of them will remember their interaction with me.”

“Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.”

“I think ABBA have a pure joy to their music and that's what makes them extraordinary.”

“I always like to take my time and examine the two candidates, see not only the two candidates but the policies they will bring in, the people they will bring in, who they might appoint to th...”

“Buy land, they're not making it anymore.”

“Self-complacency is fatal to progress.”

“It's always a little mind-boggling to realize that these famous actors know who I am.”