Every accepted public quote

“I think if you write for long enough, you eventually have a problem with everything, because you start figuring out where you could be doing better. But as far back as I can trace, I always...”

“Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers. So I let the mystery settle into my music. I don't deny anything, I don't advocate anything, I just live w...”

“There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.”

“I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.”

“The most important thing is to keep going. The second most important thing is to choose the right direction.”

“The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.”

“It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.”

“There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.”

“Perhaps you are thinking: 'But a tank costs several million dollars, not including floor mats. I don't have that kind of money.' Don't be silly. You're a consumer, right? You have credit car...”

“Though much is taken, much abides; and though We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak b...”

“Acting is happy agony.”

“Learn to accept everything about yourself, even the part of yourself that struggles to accept everything about yourself”

“Artemis: (shocked) Why, Doctor? This is a sensitive area. For all you know I could be suffering from depression. Doctor Po: I suppose you could. Is that the case? Artemis: (head in hands) It...”

“There is only one all pervading God. It has only one message - Love all, encompass all and transcend the limits of the selfish gene.”

“That's when you know for sure somebody loves you. They figure out what you need and they give it to you -- without you asking.”

“Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.”

“No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge. The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple, among his followers, gives not of...”

“As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.”

“'The Lord of the Rings,' published in the mid-1950s, was intended as a prehistory to our own world. It was perceived by Tolkien to be a small but significant episode in a vast alternate myth...”

“I find I go in airports anywhere in the country, and someone's always coming up to me and saying 'Hey, you're at my country club in Dubuque, right?' You know, because they kind of know my fa...”

“I used to have all the Goosebumps books as a kid too.”

“The pessimist resembles a man who observes with fear and sadness that his wall calendar, from which he daily tears a sheet, grows thinner with each passing day. On the other hand, the person...”

“At the end of what is called the 'sexual life' the only love which has lasted is the love which has everything, every disappointment, every failure and every betrayal, which has accepted eve...”

“The voice collects and translates your bad physical health, your emotional worries, your personal troubles.”

“Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.”

“Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.”

“For every dollar we have given to athletics, we have given about 27 to higher education or medical research.”

“Solutions to our problems as a species require a change of attitude and thinking, especially among those in positions of power and influence. Perhaps this need will provide an opportunity fo...”

“Most doctors are prisoners of their education and shackled by their profession.”

“Twitter is just full of silly little people enjoying being sarcastic and rude and mocking.”

“Many people, meeting Aziraphale for the first time, formed three impressions: that he was English, that he was intelligent, and that he was gayer than a treeful of monkeys on nitrous oxide.”

“Teachers teach less than they know; students learn more than they are taught; the difference is real education.”

“"As long as you live in your past, you will never find your future."”

“Believe in your infinite potential. Your only limitations are those you set upon yourself. Believe in yourself, your abilities and your own potential. Never let self-doubt hold you captive....”

“I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.”

“Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy to a friend.”

“Maybe the ending isn't even really the point. Just as long as there was a happy somewhere along the way.”

“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”

“Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.”

“We recognize that the majority of people who are food-insecure or hungry in the world live in rural areas. And most of them are small holder subsistence farmers.”

“There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.”

“The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.”

“I think God made a woman to be strong and not to be trampled under the feet of men. I've always felt this way because my mother was a very strong woman, without a husband.”

“He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.”

“I'm not clumsy, I'm just accident prone.”

“His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.”

“I try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face.”

“Isn't it strange that I know you'd risk your life to save mine, but I don't even know what your favorite color is?”