Every accepted public quote

“If one million of you give assent to the one thousand who participate in the murder of a child, then one million of you are a million times guilty.”

“I love walking into a bookstore. It's like all my friends are sitting on shelves, waving their pages at me.”

“There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven: a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, a time to kill and a time to heal, a...”

“This I want to believe implicitly: Man was born for love and revolution.”

“Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.”

“When life gives you lemons, make lemonade, and then throw it in the face of the person who gave you the lemons until they give you the oranges you originally asked for.”

“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”

“Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.”

“Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.”

“Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and b...”

“You are all dear to me. it is simply a matter of discovering who shall be the dearest.”

“Music is the universal language of mankind.”

“I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I b...”

“Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.”

“I don't think anyone, until their soul leaves their body, is past the point of no return.”

“You didn't just cheat on me; you cheated on us. You didn't just break my heart; you broke our future.”

“Don't Gain The World & Lose Your Soul, Wisdom Is Better Than Silver Or Gold.”

“If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?”

“Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people.”

“I never want to be away from you again, except at work, in the restroom or when one of us is at a movie the other does not want to see.”

“Far over misty mountains cold To dungeons deep and caverns old We must away, ere break of day, To find our long-forgotten gold.”

“I remember my first scene with Alan Rickman, and I was anxious because he is a slight 'method' actor; as soon as he is in his cloak, he walks and talks like Snape - it is quite terrifying. B...”

“I'm tough, I'm ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.”

“If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character...Would you slow down? Or speed up?”

“A successful man is he who receives a great deal from his fellow men, usually incomparably more than corresponds to his service to them. The value of a man, however, should be seen in what h...”

“The world is a dangerous place to live - not because of the people who are evil but because of the people who don't do anything about it.”

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them”

“I know. But this is my point. this whole deal with you and Nick being out to people... I think you need to stop worrying about anyone else feelings. - Aled Last”

“I had to learn to live without you and I couldn't make sense of it, because I left so much of me inside of you.”

“...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?”

“Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”

“I cannot understand anti-abortion arguments that centre on the sanctity of life. As a species we've fairly comprehensively demonstrated that we don't believe in the sanctity of life. The shr...”

“The way you walk, way you talk, way you say my name; it's beautiful, wonderful, don't you ever change.”

“Let me give you a piece of advice. The handsome young fellow who's trying to rescue you from a hideous fate is never wrong. Not even if he says the sky is purple and made of hedgehogs.”

“Every child is different. I think it's important that we don't have maybe just one or two books that we're recommending to all children - but rather we cater the books to fit each individual...”

“Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.”

“See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time.”

“The public do not know enough to be experts, yet know enough to decide between them.”

“I want you to know one thing. You know how this is: if I look at the crystal moon, at the red branch of the slow autumn at my window, if I touch near the fire the impalpable ash or the wrink...”

“We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.”

“I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.”

“The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it.”

“Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.”

“It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.”

“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”

“Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depths of some devine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy autumn fields, And thinking of t...”

“No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.”

“How 'bout a shot of truth in that denial cocktail.”