Every accepted public quote

“A human doesn't have a heart like mine. The human heart is a line, whereas my own is a circle, and I have the endless ability to be in the right place at the right time. The consequence of t...”

“There's a time for all things.”

“I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.”

“Love After Love The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each will smile at the other's welcome, and say, sit here. Eat...”

“I try to represent Africa and Cameroon as well as I can.”

“A truth can exist for decades and in a moment vanish. Just ask Pluto.”

“Be a true Heart, not a follower.”

“The society to which we belong seems to be dying or is already dead. I don't mean to sound dramatic, but clearly the dark side is rising. Things could not have been more odd and frightening...”

“I never think of yesterday. Can't do anything about it. I'm a positive guy. When you really deep down look at it, we go to bed every night, get up every morning, stay here for 70 or 80 years...”

“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.”

“Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. Never expect to outgrow loneliness. Never hope to find people who will understand...”

“My soul sees its equal in you.”

“Standing in support of children is something we should all be able to get behind, regardless of party affiliation.”

“I come from not just a household but a country where the finesse of language, well-balanced sentence, structure, syntax, these things are driven into us, and my parents, bless them, are grea...”

“Eat when you're hungry. Drink when you're thirsty. Sleep when you're tired.”

“But unless we determine to take action,' said the old man querulously, as if struggling against something deeply insouciant in his nature, 'then we shall all be destroyed, we shall all die....”

“Vladimir Nabokov on 'Bleak House' or Henry James on 'The House of the Seven Gables' prove that reading can be an exciting subject in itself, full of passionate encounters, contradictory judg...”

“These are the times that try men's souls.”

“I write because I cannot NOT write.”

“Could she smell my breath? Could she hear my cursed circular heart beat revolving like the crime it is in my deathly chest?”

“Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the e...”

“These thoughts are depressing I know. They are depressing, I wish I was more cheerful, it is more pleasant, Also it is a duty, we should smile as well as submitting To the purpose of One Abo...”

“Never cut what you can untie.”

“I'm a force to be reckoned with.”

“I'd rather sleep on the bus than in the hotel because I sleep way better on tour buses.”

“Endeavour to be faithful, and if there is any beauty in your thought, your style will be beautiful; if there is any real emotion to express, the expression will be moving.”

“No man is truly educated unless he knows where he came from, why he is here, and where he can expect to go in the next life.”

“I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can't due to deadness.”

“When you're 40, you can't ride the fence anymore. You gotta make definite decisions about your life.”

“I used to wonder if it was God's plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.”

“Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.”

“We might be more inclined to think about the longer term if we were more aware of what is happening around us. Perhaps daily weather forecasts could include a few basic facts about the Earth...”

“Anger is momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.”

“As a mom, I know it is my responsibility, and no one else's, to raise my kids. But we have to ask ourselves, what does it mean when so many parents are finding their best efforts undermined...”

“I'm very emotional. When I went through my first breakup, I thought it was the end of the world, and I thought I was going to die if I didn't have him in my life. It was good to cry it out a...”

“This is what happened in love. One of you cried a lot and then both of you grew sarcastic.”

“Along with the standard computer warranty agreement which said that if the machine 1) didn't work, 2) didn't do what the expensive advertisements said, 3) electrocuted the immediate neighbor...”

“"What is made from the heart is a masterpiece."”

“As cities grow and technology takes over the world belief and imagination fade away and so do we.”

“Don't say I hate institutionalised religion - rather than saying I hate those things, which I do not, what I'm saying is that perhaps there is a way of opening more doors, rather than closin...”

“The development of man's intellectual capacities has far outstripped the development of his emotions. Man's brain lives in the twentieth century; the heart of most men lives still in the Sto...”

“A single step taken in pursuit of your dream is better than a thousand wasted on following the crowd.”

“Lindsay Lohan was the 'It' girl from, like, 14. That's a lot of pressure.”

“i like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more. i like your body. i like what it does, i like its hows. i like to feel the spine of your...”

“A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those n...”

“The key to a good life is not giving a f*** about more; its giving a f*** about less, giving a f*** about only what is true and immediate and important.”

“From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.”

“I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.”