Every accepted public quote

“I think it's so funny because straight people just don't think about gender in their songs, or making a statement by talking about love.”

“Unlike any other organ in human body, the brain cells are stimulated by key ingredients like imagination, fantasy, creativity, craziness, courage, passion, and even nonsense. Without these,...”

“All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.”

“IF YOU DON'T GO AFTER WHAT YOU WANT; YOU COULD SPEND YOUR ENTIRE LIFE SETTLING FOR WHAT YOU CAN GET”

“Though this may be play to you, Tis death to us.”

“Sadism is not an infectious disease that strikes a person all of a sudden. It has a long prehistory in childhood and always originates in the desperate fantasies of a child who is searching...”

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”

“Unfortunately, very few governments think about youth unemployment when they are drawing up their national plans.”

“Sometimes I want a quiet life other times I want to go a little bit fucking Gatsby.”

“Growing up on the plantation there in Mississippi, I would work Monday through Saturday noon. I'd go to town on Saturday afternoons, sit on the street corner, and I'd sing and play.”

“It is almost impossible to do good without wisdom. All the good intentions in the world are likely to be worthless without wisdom. Many of the horrors of the twentieth century were supported...”

“If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.”

“Doing what you love is freedom. Loving what you do is happiness.”

“I'm not the expert on the great gameplay. I come in for the character design, monsters, atmosphere. I'm not the technician.”

“If I waited for perfection... I would never write a word.”

“Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.”

“I dunno whether it was to do with my parents - we were working-class - but it was important to me to be self-sufficient.”

“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”

“Life is too short not to enjoy it.”

“We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.”

“Both times I was in India, I could not get people to listen to each other. I had to literally tell people to listen to each other and tell them that they can't get creative and find alternat...”

“You're something between a dream and a miracle.”

“...[M]y inner self moved; my spirit shook its always-fettered wings half loose. I had a sudden feeling as if I, who never yet truly lived, were at last about to taste life.”

“I think that is a better thing than thanksgiving: thanks-living. How is this to be done? By a general cheerfulness of manner, by an obedience to the command of Him by whose mercy we live, by...”

“Once again, I stared at him: only this stare was different from those other stares. A man was pressing me to do something I did not want to do, and pressing me in a manner he would never hav...”

“It is easier to stay out than get out.”

“You can learn a lot from your mistakes when you aren't busy denying them.”

“Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure if they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.”

“It's hard to practice compassion when we're struggling with our authenticity or when our own worthiness is off-balance.”

“I think 'The Lord of the Rings' holds perhaps a deeper place in people's hearts than 'The Hobbit' the book does.”

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”

“I don't read 'chick lit,' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an hour to kill.”

“We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror.”

“And all people live, Not by reason of any care they have for themselves, But by the love for them that is in other people.”

“The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.”

“Knowledge enhances self-confidence.”

“Dance with the waves, move with the sea. Let the rhythm of the water set your soul free.”

“People die, I think, but your relationship with them doesn't. It continues and is ever-changing.”

“Positive or negative its all feedback.”

“By the truth we are undone. Life is a dream. 'Tis the waking that kills us. He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.”

“Then, as his planet killed him, it occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error.”

“Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.”

“Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as our prince of peace, of civil rights. We owe him something major that will keep his memory alive.”

“Excelsior!”

“Music inflames temperament.”

“Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.”

“Krishna exists in the heart of those who seek him.”

“Once kids begin to realize that they are connected to a greater good and greater whole, then that will lessen the possibility that they will act out violently because it creates empathy.”