Every accepted public quote

“There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite.”

“Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.”

“Your dream is always valid until you lose moral to chase it.”

“I felt that I ostracized myself by my behavior, by the past, by living with all the regrets of my mistakes, that I sort of wore a hair shirt and beat myself up most of the day thinking and r...”

“In fact, you couldn't give me anything to make me go back to being a teenager. Never. No, I hated it.”

“We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there, lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stovelid. She will never sit down on a hot st...”

“Love, passion, and intimacy will not remain in the absence of friendship.”

“Words have power, and if you are going to use your words negatively, then that is exactly what is going to happen in your life.”

“I'm an early 1990's baby, so I had the pleasure of going through a lot of eras in music.”

“I don't want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I've never met. I want to go on living even after my death!”

“..through you will call forth praise from lonesome travelers long after your name is forgotten. They will know someone lived and loved here. 'Whoever they were,' they will think, 'they belon...”

“There is a wisdom in children, a kind of knowing, a kind of believing, that we, as adults, do not have. There is a time when a kingdom needs its children.”

“The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.”

“Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.”

“I was weirdly obsessed with music until I was 11, and then I turned into a nerd.”

“No, there is literally nothing on the business side that I wouldn't sacrifice in a heartbeat to have an extra couple of hours' writing. Nothing.”

“Just because things hadn't gone the way I had planned didn't necessarily mean they had gone wrong.”

“When there's not ten feet of snow on the ground, I ride my bike down the streets of New York, and I literally hear two things out of car windows as cabs pass by me: They either yell, 'Hey, d...”

“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”

“If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her nose all the time.”

“Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.”

“One day my 3-year-old daughter said 'Your very handsome, Poppy.' That was the best compliment ever.”

“In a democracy, when freedoms are threatened; tyranny must stare down the barrel aimed at the revolutionary rebellion.”

“Now there is one thing I can tell you: you will enjoy certain pleasures you would not fathom now. When you still had your mother you often thought of the days when you would have her no long...”

“I'm going to hell. I'm pretty sure she'd going to drag me there herself.”

“He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.”

“Don't be intimidated by what you don't know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else.”

“J.K. Rowling said Bellatrix's role was going to be significant in the last one, when I showed some reluctance in playing a tiny bit part. Up front, they said, 'You're very significant in the...”

“I've had people in the family, male and female, impacted by heart disease. But people can prevent it.”

“Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety.”

“Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.”

“To associate with other like-minded people in small purposeful groups is for the great majority of men and women a source of profound psychological satisfaction.”

“It was as if that great rush of anger had washed me clean, emptied me of hope, and, gazing up at the dark sky spangled with its signs and stars, for the first time, the first, I laid my hear...”

“I'm possibly a very morbid person but I think about death a lot.”

“Inspiration moves one from Pessimism to Optimism, from Doubt to Faith, from Despair to Hope, and from Darkness to Light!- RVM”

“Poems are a hotline to our hearts, and we forget this emotional power at our peril.”

“The intellect is always fooled by the heart.”

“Life is a dance. Mindfulness is witnessing that dance.”

“To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.”

“Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.”

“If love goes too far, it turns into cruelty.”

“Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God's grace.”

“Philanthropy is the thing that I am really excited about, and having success means I can do more.”

“Never to suffer would have been never to have been blessed.”

“He must love you very much,' Gavril said once I had my footing. I couldn't look at him. 'What makes you say that?' Gavril sighed. 'I've known Maxon since he was a child. He's never stood up...”

“My view is that if your philosophy is not unsettled daily then you are blind to all the universe has to offer.”

“You can do without a woman but not a typewriter.”

“A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life's gas-pipe with a lighted candle.”