Every accepted public quote

“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”

“Unbeing dead isn't being alive.”

“When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.”

“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever yo...”

“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”

“The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.”

“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.”

“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”

“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”

“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”

“There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”

“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”

“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”

“I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.”

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”

“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”

“To the stars who listen— and the dreams that are answered.”

“One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to f...”

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excelle...”

“It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.”

“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”

“Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.”

“To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”

“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”

“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”

“Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.”

“Reality continues to ruin my life.”

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”

“Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.”

“Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.”

“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”

“All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A...”

“If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?”

“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”

“Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide...”

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”

“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”

“Never memorize something that you can look up.”