Every accepted public quote

“We both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us.”

“Remember, darkness does not always equate to evil, just as light does not always bring good.”

“I went on spouting bullshit Encouragements as Gus's parents, arm in arm, hugged each other and nodded at every word. Funerals, I had decided, are for the living.”

“. . . finally, I couldn't imagine how I could live without books, and I stopped dreaming about marrying that Chinese prince. . . .”

“The library is like a candy store where everything is free.”

“There are two kinds of secrets. The ones we keep from others and the ones we keep from ourselves.”

“People need stories, child. They bring us hope, and that hope is real. If that's the case, what does it matter whether people in them actually lived?”

“See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise, you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.”

“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”

“The moment our lips met, I knew with pure and piercing certainty that I would have waited for him forever.”

“Patience has never been my strong suit.”

“I've committed to surfing the rest of my life.”

“you got a sad story, ruth,' mimba said. 'but not sad-sad. you here with me and cato and all us together now. you have a happy-sad story. best you can get in this life is happy-sad. but you a...”

“It is a happiness to wonder; -- it is a happiness to dream.”

“One of the things that I cannot fathom is young actors who will not audition and won't read.”

“I still approach a scene as one would approach a solo. There's nothing set or pat.”

“You know someone's right for you when the things they don't have to say are even more important than the things they do.”

“Death is part of who we are. It guides us. It shapes us. It drives us to madness. Can you still be human if you have no mortal end”

“To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.”

“If I can give something to the next generation, I want to give a message of positivity, to believe in themselves, because I think the world has just a lot of unnecessary stresses to be a cer...”

“It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.”

“The people around you are mirrors, I think to myself. The dog is paddling in the lake, I watch her lap at the water. You see yourself reflected in their eyes. If the mirror is true and smoot...”

“I've always been kind of a voyeur.”

“We released '1950,' and I felt so grateful for the response from the queer community as well as just musicians and people in the industry responding to it and validating the art I had made....”

“I prefer ordinary girls - you know, college students, waitresses, that sort of thing. Most of the girls I go out with are just good friends. Just because I go out to the cinema with a girl,...”

“Friends can make you feel that the world is smaller and less sneaky than it really is, because you know people who have similar experiences.”

“She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just takes time.”

“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it, you will land among the stars.”

“I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?”

“Change in all things is sweet.”

“Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and replanted for too long a series of generations in the same worn-out soil.”

“If you find it hard to laugh at yourself, I would be happy to do it for you.”

“...and you drink a little too much and try a little too hard. And you go home to a cold bed and think, 'That was fine'. And your life is a long line of fine.”

“What an encouraging thought that Jesus - our beloved Husband - can find comfort in our lowly feeble gifts! Can this be, for it seems far too good to be true? May we then be willing to endure...”

“Words can never fully say what we want them to say, for they fumble, stammer, and break the best porcelain. The best one can hope for is to find along the way someone to share the path, cont...”

“Don't play what's there, play what's not there.”

“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”

“What I most identify with is effortless fashion, looking as if someone's not put a lot of effort into their look.”

“Before the war, and especially before the Boer War, it was summer all the year round.”

“Aim at heaven and you get earth thrown in; aim at earth and you get neither.”

“I'm surrounded by good people, and I surround myself with good people.”

“I generally find subtlety a waste of time.”

“To love is easy, to be in a relationship is extremely difficult.”

“Socialism has no moral justification whatsoever; poor people are not morally superior to rich people, nor are they owed anything by rich people simply because of their lack of success. Chari...”

“Money swore an oath that nobody who did not love it should ever have it.”

“When you follow God, He will never let you go.”

“The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.”

“We didn't talk about anything heavy or light. We were just there together. And that was enough”