Every accepted public quote

“The deeper a thing is, the more interesting it is”

“The rest is silence.”

“I have for some time now been deeply troubled by the growing difficulties faced by Christian communities in various parts of the Middle East. It seems to me that we cannot ignore the fact th...”

“I've found that there is always some beauty left -- in nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself; these can all help you.”

“Death is a personal matter, arousing sorrow, despair, fervor, or dry-hearted philosophy. Funerals, on the other hand, are social functions. Imagine going to a funeral without first polishing...”

“Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.”

“Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.”

“Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.”

“A particularly good book had a way of opening new spaces in one's mind. It even invited you to come back later and rummage through what you'd learned.”

“I don't encourage people to choose any sort of sexuality.”

“Never say no when you really want to say yes.”

“Maybe it was the alcohol, maybe it was the truth, maybe I didn't want things to turn abstract, but I felt I should say it, because this was the moment to say it, because it suddenly dawned o...”

“Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.”

“I am a work in progress.”

“Do not be afraid; our fate Cannot be taken from us; it is a gift.”

“We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken.”

“When I was younger, I thought that everything would just come to me eventually, but now I see I have to take the initiative and practise to improve myself.”

“A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.”

“Only the shallow know themselves.”

“I suggest school buses make stops at local libraries so that children who do not have resources like books at home can get access.”

“Failed attempt is just one step closer to finding a solution. Keep working through the failure, it will just be one step closer to success.”

“You can't stop the future You can't rewind the past The only way to learn the secret ...is to press play.”

“I'm not really sure what makes a book a 'classic' to begin with, but I think it has to be at least fifty years old and some person or animal has to die at the end.”

“Update your truth! There is no soul; there is only mind and body! Update your truth or the truth will update you! The truth and the science are the greatest updaters!”

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there.”

“Help others without any reason and give without the expectation of receiving anything in return.”

“Reading after a certain (time) diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.”

“Why should I be sad? Everyone has to die. If you have a body, it's too late to cry. It's only funerals I can't stand.”

“The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.”

“A problem is a chance for you to do your best.”

“Unfortunately, when someone asks me for a favor, I can't say no. Because of my upbringing - my Catholic guilt - if I don't do it, it plagues me.”

“Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.”

“Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.”

“It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.”

“I remember looking up wrestling schools at the age of 10, and I emailed so many people. The responses were that I had to be 16 or 18 to train, and that was a bummer.”

“Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.”

“As the story grew, it put down roots into the past and threw out unexpected branches .”

“You never change your life until you step out of your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone.”

“Speed is the No. 1 thing. Our core competency has been doing exactly this: buying companies and integrating them quickly.”

“You have every right to a beautiful life.”

“The intelligent have plans; the wise have principles.”

“The idea of education has been so tied to schools, universities, and professors that many assume there is no other way, but education is available to anyone within reach of a library, a post...”

“When I left Cameroon, I was 15 years old... I had one dream - it was to conquer the world.”

“We are not born good or evil, but throughout life are confronted with numerous circumstances in which we have a choice; prior history portrays future actions, but at the point of each decisi...”

“I think that if you do want to be a fighter, then you need to work harder than everybody else and make sure that you surround yourself with good people, especially if you're a woman. You've...”

“The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa - slightly off balance.”

“Worst of all, the inner vault is guarded by a live dragon, attended by fifty naked women armed with poisoned spears, each of them sworn to die in Requin's service. All redheads. -You're just...”

“In the bad old days, there were three easy ways of losing money - racing being the quickest, women the pleasantest and farming the most certain.”