Every accepted public quote

“Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.”

“You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning is only clear thorough the search.”

“The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.”

“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it...”

“If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so.”

“If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.”

“Be brave to stand for what you believe in even if you stand alone.”

“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.”

“I'll just have them change the entry in the demonology textbook from 'almost extinct' to 'not extinct enough for Alec. He prefers his monsters really, really extinct.' Will that make you hap...”

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”

“If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.”

“True kindness is when you show people in front the kindness people behind never showed you. ~Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu”

“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”

“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.”

“I come to writing the same way I come to teaching, which is that my goal is always to create life-long readers.”

“You'll never be able to let him go. You'll always feel wrong about being with me.”

“In the midst of life we are in death.”

“Everyone mourns the first blossom. Who will grieve the rest who fall?”

“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all res...”

“Hate is like drinking poison and hoping the other person will die.”

“A truth should exist, it should not be used like this. If I love you is that a fact or a weapon?”

“There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”

“Don't feel stupid if you don't like what everyone else pretends to love.”

“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”

“When money cannot solve problems, the rich view life with the eyes of the poor. ~Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu”

“Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”

“She'd secretly had a crush on him since they were twelve years old. Last summer, she'd fallen for him hard.”

“Those sweet lips. My, oh my, I could kiss those lips all night long. Good things come to those who wait.”

“And then he gives me a smile that just seems so genuinely sweet with just the right touch of shyness that unexpected warmth rushes through me.”

“Wrong will be right, when Aslan comes in sight, At the sound of his roar, sorrows will be no more, When he bares his teeth, winter meets its death, And when he shakes his mane, we shall have...”

“I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.”

“Lovers alone wear sunlight.”

“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”

“Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.”

“We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets.”

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I...”

“Dance above the surface of the world. Let your thoughts lift you into creativity that is not hampered by opinion.”

“Black holes are where God divided by zero.”

“Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.”

“My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the heck she is.”

“We are all barnacles on the container ship of consciousness”

“I learned that there is good in this world, if you look hard enough for it. I learned that not everyone is disappointing, including me, and that a 1,257 foot bump in the ground can feel high...”

“I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.”

“God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being...”

“This is my knife. It is very sharp and very eager to hurt you.”

“Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.”

“I am going to take this bucket of water and pour it on the flames of hell, and then I am going to use this torch to burn down the gates of paradise so that people will not love God for want...”