Every accepted public quote

“you're an expert at sorry and keeping the lines blurry”

“and I pondered this curiously crazy life and the things I failed to grasp as a girl but thought I understood now as a softer , wiser woman I thought about life and death... I thought about t...”

“Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.”

“The problem is acceptance, which is something we're taught not to do. We're taught to improve uncomfortable situations, to change things, alleviate unpleasant feelings. But if you accept the...”

“Beginning to think is beginning to be undermined. Society has but little connection with such beginnings. The worm is in man's heart. That is where it must be sought. One must follow and und...”

“Adversity is simply part of earth life. From it we can grow and progress if we choose to. Yes, some trials come because of our own disobedience, but many trials are simply part of life.”

“I hope you find someone who knows how to love you when you are sad.”

“I think when I was younger I wasn't really sure if I wanted to act, so I played around with a few different ideas. I wasn't sure whether I might want to write or whether I might want to do s...”

“Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.”

“Moms, you should parent in whatever way works for your family and spend less time worrying about other people's perceptions of how you're doing.”

“A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.”

“Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any.”

“If you cannot hold me in your arms, then hold my memory in high regard. And if I cannot be in your life, then at least let me live in your heart.”

“I've won the African Cup, I've won an Olympic gold medal. That says everything.”

“Daisies are like sunshine to the ground.”

“I hope you will have a wonderful year, that you'll dream dangerously and outrageously, that you'll make something that didn't exist before you made it, that you will be loved and that you wi...”

“If you don't stand your ground, then all that happens is people push you backwards.”

“If one has no sense of humor, one is in trouble.”

“But as the years went on, I realised that what I really want to be, all told, is a human. Just a productive, honest, courteously treated human.”

“For rave-worthy soups, skip the store-bought stock. You can extract a cleaner, stronger broth from a combination of water and several pantry ingredients. It's all about layering powerful fla...”

“If you have good friends, no matter how much life is sucking , they can make you laugh.”

“A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.”

“Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.”

“HEARTWORK Each day is born with a sunrise and ends in a sunset, the same way we open our eyes to see the light, and close them to hear the dark. You have no control over how your story begin...”

“We are all worms, But I do believe that I am a glow worm.”

“You're not really famous if anybody still likes you.”

“You beat China by outcompeting them, by dominating the new technologies: wind, solar, electric vehicles, artificial intelligence, additive manufacturing. We should be reinvesting back in the...”

“Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.”

“The idea that women were oppressed throughout history is an appalling theory.”

“When you can live forever what do you live for?”

“Think of all that hard work our founding fathers put in - the revolutionizing, the three-fifths compromising, having to write the entire Constitution with a quill - and yet they neglected to...”

“I have learnt a very important lesson about eliminating time wasters in my life ~ and the lesson is to ALWAYS INVEST TIME ON PURPOSE.”

“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”

“Practice makes perfect, but nobody's perfect, so why practice?”

“Honesty is the best policy.”

“We cannot, after all, judge a biography by its length, by the number of pages in it; we must judge by the richness of the contents...Sometimes the 'unfinisheds' are among the most beautiful...”

“You were born with potential. You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness. You were born with wings. You are not meant for crawl...”

“Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.”

“The truth between two people always cuts two ways.”

“You may search my countenance, but you cannot read it.”

“Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will”

“Being realistic and right is a way better than being deluded and wrong”

“When you're the only sane person, you look like the only insane person.”

“The desires of man are frequently more influential than their rational thought.”

“Success comes in cans, not cannots.”

“Marvel actually sent me to a school in the Bronx where I had a fake name, and I put on an accent, and I went for, like, three days. I basically had to go to this science school and blend in...”

“Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.”

“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.”