Every accepted public quote

“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...”

“You can't cheat the game. You can't cheat the grind. You get out what you put in at the end of the day.”

“Honestly, I think we should be delighted people still want to read, be it on a Kindle or a Nook or whatever the latest device is.”

“Worrying about your future will rob you of your present. You deserve a good present.”

“Sometimes, things just happen. Things that will change everything. Things that change you.”

“I have been a designer all my life, and design, for me, is to share love and trust and show the future in a beautiful way. I have worked on this principle all my life.”

“You don't destroy what you want to acquire in the future.”

“I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.”

“To deny temporal succession, to deny the self, to deny the astronomical universe, are measures of apparent despair and of secret consolation. Our destiny (in contrast to Swedenborg's hell an...”

“Artemis felt like he was six again and caught hacking the school computers trying to make the test questions harder”

“Lead roles are fun, but I'm especially happy other, more colorful supporting stuff has come along.”

“Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.”

“Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and perfect obedience to an absolute geometry that even stones - maybe only the...”

“Remember an arrow can only be shot by pulling it backwards; so when you feel like life is dragging you down with difficulties, it simply means that it's going to launch you to something grea...”

“I am like any typical teenager.”

“Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters”

“Yoga is the art work of awareness on the canvas of body, mind, and soul.”

“I mean, I have done scenes with animals, with owls, with bats, with cats, with special effects, with thespians, in the freezing cold, in the pouring rain, boiling hot; I've done press with e...”

“The greatest enemy to fear is truth.”

“Appreciate the moment of a first kiss; it may be the last time you own your heart.”

“There's is always a way to make life better.”

“War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.”

“Overall, the library held a hushed exultation, as though the cherished volumes were all singing soundlessly within their covers.”

“Every book is like starting over again. I've written books every way possible - from using tight outlines to writing from the seat of my pants. Both ways work.”

“The old man was peering intently at the shelves. 'I'll have to admit that he's a very competent scholar.' Isn't he just a librarian?' Garion asked, 'somebody who looks after books?' That's w...”

“The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.”

“Maraming pwedeng humadlang sa'tin, but you have to promise me na sa akin ka lang maniniwala, that I will love and follow you until the end of time.”

“We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.”

“Here at last is her smile: burn it into your memory; you won't see it often.”

“It's mainly about working hard and proving to people you're serious about it, and stretching yourself and learning. The mistake a lot of actors make, particularly young ones, is allowing the...”

“The truth is in the heart; out there is true darkness.”

“Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.”

“He experienced the singular pleasure of watching people he loved fall in love with other people he loved.”

“There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.”

“She should have done science, not spent all her time with her head in novels. Novels gave you a completely false idea about life, they told lies and they implied there were endings when in r...”

“I'm definitely of the 'Harry Potter'-transfigured-me-into-a-reader-and-writer generation. And that's really all I read throughout my teen years, because I really devoted all my time to writi...”

“She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).”

“A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.”

“I let people fill in the blanks on their own. If they want to think about their ex, that's fine. If they want to think about maybe who one of my exes is, then that's fine. And it might not b...”

“There is no law for farm labor organizing, save the law of the jungle.”

“For there to be betrayal, there would have to have been trust first.”

“Enjoy it. Because it's happening.”

“Every character needs an adversary - one who is both challenging and a contrast for the hero. The best adversaries reveal something about the character they're contrasting.”

“To err is human, to forgive, divine.”

“"Love is a weapon.. The most powerful weapon of all, so that means the pain you should be worried about isnt the kind that comes from a broken sword, but the kind that comes from a broken he...”

“"Ah, Magnus Bane," said Matthew. "My personal hero." "Indeed, you once described him as 'Oscar Wilde if he had magic powers,'" said James.”

“When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.”

“Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.”