Every accepted public quote

“Abolitionists believe that, as all men are born free, so all who are now held as slaves in this country were born free, and that they are slaves now is the sin, not of those who introduced t...”

“Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.”

“My love is meatloaf flavored. I just wish my meatloaf was also meatloaf flavored.”

“Sentence first, verdict afterwards.”

“I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.”

“Every person has a longing to be significant; to make a contribution; to be a part of something noble and purposeful.”

“I must confess, I was born at a very early age.”

“There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love.”

“Those are my principles, and if you don't like them...well I have others.”

“While I was boxing professionally, I never thought about my looks. The furthest thing from my mind was 'messing up my pretty face' when I was on my way to the ring to meet my opponent. Yet,...”

“Life is simply a long journey of problem-solving and conflict resolution.”

“Learn to deal with the fact that you are not a perfect person but you are a person that deserves respect and honesty.”

“Unless you challenge yourself, you will not learn. You will not grow. Education is the art of challenging and overcoming.”

“I bet you could sometimes find all the mysteries of the universe in someone's hand.”

“I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it.”

“I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.”

“She made broken look beautiful and strong look invincible. She walked with the Universe on her shoulders and made it look like a pair of wings.”

“Quitting is the only thing that really brings permanent failure.”

“Sweet are the uses of adversity; Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.”

“I love places that have an incredible history. I love the Italian way of life. I love the food. I love the people. I love the attitudes of Italians.”

“I will not tell you our love story, because-like all real love stories-it will die with us,as it should.”

“A man should definitely own a couple of blue denims, white crew neck T-shirt, a versatile blazer, comfortable pair of boxers, and coloured sneakers.”

“Love is sweeter than honey, stronger than hate, and greater than riches. Love in words creates trust. Love in thinking creates compassion. Love in giving creates hope. Love in living creates...”

“A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar.”

“Rabe'a al-Adiwiyah, a great woman saint of Sufism, was seen running through the streets of her hometown, Basra, carrying a torch in one hand and a bucket of water in the other. When someone...”

“I left Cameroon when I was 13 years old, and I've lived more in Europe than Africa.”

“People look at Marvel movies as epic in scope, but if you look back at the comics, you realise that Marvel heroes were often a reaction to the square-jawed DC characters like Superman, who w...”

“The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.”

“Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are, by their very nature, highly uncertain, precarious, ephemeral and subje...”

“To be wholly self-aware one must give in to the unknown.”

“Embrace the void and have the courage to exist.”

“Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where...”

“Shee, you guys are so unhip it's a wonder your bums don't fall off.”

“A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.”

“Our world is increasingly interdependent and pluralistic, and in order to ensure a civil future, we must get to know one another.”

“A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens re...”

“Sometimes to self-discover you must self-destruct.”

“The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.”

“A promise made is a debt unpaid.”

“Choose being kind over being right and you'll never be wrong.”

“I know, too, that death is the only god who comes when you call.”

“Foaly: Anyone see you come in here? Holly: The FBI, CIA, NSA, DEA, MI6. Oh, and the EIB. Foaly: The EIB? Holly: (smirking) Everyone in the building.”

“There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.”

“There are very few well-adjusted people in my books. But I do think that's normal. Because everyone does have their issues and hang-ups.”

“We don't need to be number one. We just need to be one.”

“Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.”

“The times that were most fun seemed always to be followed by sadness now, because it was when life started to feel like it did when she was with us that we realized how utterly gone she was.”

“A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.”