Every accepted public quote

“So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go...”

“I will be what I ought to be for if not, who am I?”

“You move into the darkness, wrapping it around you like a heavy cloak. You dive into it naked like a midnight swim, slip beneath its covers and invite it to envelope you, as a dream. You los...”

“By nice women . . . you probably mean selfish women who have no more thought for the underprivileged, overworked women than a pussycat in a sunny window for the starving kitten in the street...”

“Every once in a while you need to challenge yourself and learn new things.”

“I'm drawn to failure. I feel like I'm contending with it constantly in my own life.”

“The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.”

“Pride is the first step in people unraveling and companies unraveling and relationships unraveling.”

“When we lack confidence, living life becomes more complex. However, the fear of failure most likely reduces our confidence and thus makes problem solving more difficult; when you accept fail...”

“Maybe sometimes we don't do the right thing because the wrong thing looks more dangerous, and we don't want to look scared, so we go and do the wrong thing just because it's dangerous. We're...”

“Because there are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the s...”

“I always have water, tons of water. It's even in my bathroom because I used to be so bad at drinking water, and I want to stay hydrated.”

“Humanity i love you because you are perpetually putting the secret of life in your pants and forgetting it's there and sitting down on it and because you are forever making poems in the lap...”

“A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of little attentions and altogether charming. But when a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep.”

“Most women still need a room of their own and the only way to find it may be outside their own home.”

“Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to others.”

“If I don't have cereal on the bus, I'm going to be really upset.”

“Human body is the universe itself compressed into an intelligible size.”

“You can't just like Harry Potter. You have to be balls-out obsessed with it.”

“He loved her for almost everything she was & she decided that was enough to let him stay for a very long time.”

“Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.”

“How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.”

“A story shared back and forth is just about the most perfect symbiotic gift. It's a bit like love. No, it's a lot like love.”

“He knew Alec enough by now to know the conflicting impulses that warred in him. He was conscientious, the kind of person who believed that the others around him were so much more important t...”

“The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.”

“That's not a bad word...hate and war are bad words, but fuck isn't.”

“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.”

“I played Othello at RADA - blacked up. I didn't know it was going to be offensive now!”

“A man is rich in proportion to the things he can afford to let alone.”

“Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water! And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like pr...”

“The moment you put someone on a pedestal they will look down upon you. The trick is respecting each other equally.”

“Many people think of perfectionism as striving to be your best, but it is not about self-improvement; it's about earning approval and acceptance.”

“Weeping is not the same thing as crying. It takes your whole body to weep, and when it's over, you feel like you don't have any bones left to hold you up.”

“There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.”

“Circumstances don't define you. They shape you. You are molded to make a difference. Let your light shine brightly, even through the cracks.”

“We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book.”

“There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who, when presented with a glass that is exactly half full, say: this glass is half full. And then there are th...”

“For she had eyes and chose me.”

“Why?' is always the most difficult question to answer. You know where you are when someone asks you 'What's the time?' or 'When was the battle of 1066?' or 'How do these seatbelts work that...”

“He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.”

“Be careful of your thoughts; they may become words at any moment.”

“The theatre at my school was awesome. It was a 1,400-seat auditorium, so, being in that auditorium at 17, and having, like, 1,400 people cheer for you was, like, one of the most amazing feel...”

“Be the change you want to see in the world”

“Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things.”

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”

“Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.”

“I keep planting my smile in the rich soil of your sadness, hoping one day love will bloom from your thoroughly saturated heart.”

“If God exists, then we are spiritual beings, and we have souls, and we are noble inherently.”