Every accepted public quote

“The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.”

“I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think”

“If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.”

“If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.”

“Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.”

“Libraries were full of ideas—perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.”

“Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.”

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”

“Don't feel bad, I'm usually about to die.”

“Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.”

“Death ends a life, not a relationship.”

“Knowing too much of your future is never a good thing.”

“I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.”

“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”

“I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.”

“Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you're wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn't...”

“The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence; the past is a place of learning, not a place of living.”

“Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable d...”

“My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.”

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”

“You'll stay with me?' Until the very end,' said James.”

“And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.”

“The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.”

“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”

“If writers wrote as carelessly as some people talk, then adhasdh asdglaseuyt[bn[ pasdlgkhasdfasdf.”

“You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.”

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”

“The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”

“Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face.”

“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent”

“Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”

“It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform.”

“I heard what you said. I’m not the silly romantic you think. I don’t want the heavens or the shooting stars. I don’t want gemstones or gold. I have those things already. I want…a steady hand...”

“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of...”

“He can run faster than Severus Snape confronted with shampoo.”

“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”

“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”

“When love is not madness it is not love.”

“Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.”

“The marks humans leave are too often scars.”

“The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.”

“Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.”

“We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.”

“We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.”