Every accepted public quote

“I haven't always been thrilled with my work. But the fear of not proving the people wrong who think you can't emerge from a franchise and do well, that's a very strong driving force.”

“I got a call from the Oprah Winfrey Show. Oprah had chosen Spanx as one of her favorite products in 2000. I had boxes of product in my apartment and I had two weeks notice that she was going...”

“The devil lacks inspiration that's why he has to imitate everything. Cultivate your thoughts!”

“I'm not funny. What I am is brave.”

“Perhaps the greatest faculty our minds possess is the ability to cope with pain. Classic thinking teaches us of the four doors of the mind, which everyone moves through according to their ne...”

“Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a world she will not see.”

“There is no singer I can think of who can touch Ella Fitzgerald. And when Billie Holiday sings, she's merciless about it. Her voice has just this immaculate sadness - even in happy songs, th...”

“There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.”

“There is no such thing as 'your truth'. There is the truth and your opinion.”

“He wondered reflectively what would happen if you asked a nun where the Gents was. Probably the Pope sent you a sharp note or something.”

“Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.”

“We do not always have explanations to questions of human nature. Are those who revel in their own anguish and grief seeking attention or has it become an ingrained slice of their personality...”

“My parents are left-wing, and I would describe myself as that. But also, you know what? I wouldn't describe myself as that. Because I don't have to. Because I'm not a political party. Most p...”

“It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - up to fifty words used in correct context - no human being has been reported to have learned dolphin...”

“Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.”

“Death twitches my ear; 'Live,' he says... 'I'm coming.”

“Each life touches every life. Echoes through eternity in ways too vast to see, infinite to understand, and endless to imagine. Cuts and colors a unique swath through the fabric of the univer...”

“I remember, as a child, the confusion of not knowing what this place was where I was supposed to spend the night: it's a disquieting experience for a child. And what I would do was quickly u...”

“Laws go where dollars please.”

“It's just that I don't want to be somebody's crush. If somebody likes me, I want them to like the real me, not what they think I am. And I don't want them to carry it around inside. I want t...”

“A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.”

“I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the u...”

“I lied and said I was busy. I was busy; but not in a way most people understand. I was busy taking deeper breaths. I was busy silencing irrational thoughts. I was busy calming a racing heart...”

“Anyone can deal with success, but only the wise can learn from failure.”

“I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.”

“It's the imperfections that make things beautiful”

“Faith is our direct link to universal wisdom, reminding us that we know more than we have heard or read or studied that we have only to look, listen, and trust the love and wisdom of the Uni...”

“I remember the absolute joy I used to get out of writing. The purity of imagining something and then putting it down on paper - it was such a pleasure. I read whatever I could get my hands o...”

“Alchemy, the masters teach, is the process of linking the spiritual to the material. The alchemist is the bridge between the worlds. It is a process of working inside a mirror, knowing alway...”

“Men They hail you as their morning star Because you are the way you are. If you return the sentiment, They'll try to make you different; And once they have you, safe and sound, They want to...”

“The higher animals are in a sense drawn into Man when he loves them and makes them (as he does) much more nearly human than they would otherwise be.”

“Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual.”

“I finally understood what true love meant...love meant that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be.”

“People can be slave-ships in shoes.”

“I think I've discovered the secret of life -- you just hang around until you get used to it.”

“When I remember my college, my Alma mater, I remember the trees and the flowers. There were many fun, many celebrations, but only the trees have the lasting impressions.”

“If you want to oppose Trump, the first thing you should do is say, 'I'm not going to do one thing that makes it worse.' Because making it worse helps Trump. Part of the damage of this era is...”

“Shooting a movie should be fun! It's not a real job. It can be hard, but at the end of the day, we're dressing up and playing pretend.”

“My first account was Neiman Marcus. I cold-called them just like I had cold-called businesses when I was selling fax machines for seven years.”

“That's the nature of being a parent, Sabine has discovered. You'll love your children far more than you ever loved your parents, and -- in the recognition that your own children cannot fatho...”

“I can't focus when there's too many things around. Whenever I used to go to the office, I used to always say, 'Tidy up.'”

“If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.”

“The first story I finished was when I was six years old.”

“The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.”

“Mad Hatter: Am I going mad? Alice: Yes, you're mad, bonkers, off the top of your head...but...I'll tell you a secret. All the best people are.”

“I am ecstatic that 'KPC' was a commercial hit and was critically acclaimed. The 60 days we shot for it were the best days of my life. I still get goosebumps when I think of them.”

“Knowledge is NOT power. The correct application of knowledge is power.”

“The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.”