Every accepted public quote

“I think it's useful, as a famous person, to have as little separation between the perception of you and how you really are - because otherwise I'd be sitting here thinking I'm keeping secret...”

“There are many rules for success, but none of them will work unless you do.”

“Falling in love is very real, but I used to shake my head when people talked about soul mates, poor deluded individuals grasping at some supernatural ideal not intended for mortals but sound...”

“Never try to leap from a standstill.”

“The best lies are based on the truth, at least in part”

“Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self-evident.”

“We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progres...”

“If anyone stops us, as long as we mumble something pretentious about the glory of death, we should be fine.”

“First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.”

“The difference between sex and love is that sex relieves tension and love causes it.”

“With our thoughts we make the world.”

“These young guys are playing checkers. I'm out there playing chess.”

“My parents danced together, her head on his chest. Both had their eyes closed. They seemed so perfectly content. If you can find someone like that, someone who you can hold and close your ey...”

“Whether we call it a job or a career, work is more than just something we do. It is a part of who we are.”

“Knowledge always has the potential to be dangerous. It is a more powerful weapon than any sword or spell.”

“I know your soul. Everything else is just an ornament.”

“No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater...The love we have for each other is big...”

“You can't be the nice little girl you were taught to be in childhood and expect to achieve your adult goals.”

“You're now just an unopened loved letter that started off as fate, just another fucking story with no beginning or end date.”

“All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.”

“I love engaging in conversation with other moms because we can relate to one another, and we swap valuable insight and information.”

“When historians consider the significance of the Berlin crises of the mid-20th century, I do not believe that they will record it as an incident in the encirclement of freedom. The true view...”

“From the moment we can fend for ourselves, striving to meet goals are an integral part of life; the type of goals changes throughout our life from striving to succeed to staying healthy and...”

“Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.”

“The fame stuff, the kind words from websites and things, are very flattering and lovely, but I just wanna act.”

“Loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.”

“People will kill you over time, and how they'll kill you is with tiny, harmless phrases, like 'be realistic.'”

“Art is the proper task of life.”

“As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.”

“We love things that are convenient.”

“Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.”

“A human being possessed by a belief and not eager to pass it on to others is a phenomenon alien to the earth, where our mania for salvation makes life unbreathable.”

“You see persons and things not as they are but as you are.”

“In any story, the villain is the catalyst. The hero's not a person who will bend the rules or show the cracks in his armor. He's one-dimensional intentionally, but the villain is the person...”

“All decisions are made on insufficient evidence.”

“One of the great privileges of having grown up in a middle-class literary English household, but having gone to school in the front lines in Southeast London, was that I became half-street-u...”

“How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your li...”

“The less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands.”

“A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.”

“If you call 'religious' a man who believes in what I call a Supermeaning, a meaning so comprehensive that you can no longer grasp it, get hold of it in rational intellectual terminology, the...”

“Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.”

“Hatred is a very underestimated emotion.”

“Ron was always my favorite character, because I feel like I relate to him, like we've both got red hair, we both like sweets, we've both got lots of brothers and sisters.”

“Time is a waste of money.”

“I think to think. Not to be thought-full, or to reach a point of wisdom or acquire a grace of knowledge. I think for the sensuality of thought.”

“Fall in love with someone who tastes like adventure but looks like the calm, beautiful morning after a terrible storm”

“Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.”

“Adversity introduces a man to himself.”