Every accepted public quote

“How to make God laugh. Tell him your future plans.”

“Woman is at once apple and serpent.”

“The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy ... what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be?”

“If you are self-aware of what you are going through, you would be in a better position to understand others, and affect people around you.”

“Every woman wants a man who'll fall in love with her soul as well as her body.”

“When life feels too big to handle, go outside. Everything looks smaller when you're standing under the sky.”

“Tell me there is still good in the world. Tell me there is still hope for all of us.”

“God has given us more than fourteen billion cells and connections in our brain. Why would God give us such a complex organ system unless he expects us to use it?”

“When what you want is a relationship, and not a person, get a dog.”

“Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.”

“I'm so happy to be rich, I'm willing to take all the consequences.”

“When the sun and the moon will be identically seen together, When the wind and the water will meet in alliance, When the stars will shine as bright as your emotions, You will find her holdin...”

“For thousands of years, there have been lies about being gay or not being gay. If you know they're lies, you're free.”

“You is kind. You is smart. You is important.”

“Nobody can hurt me without my permission.”

“A society without democracy is a society of slaves and fools.”

“Spoiler alert: Love is worth everything. Everything.”

“As I got older, I learned about how some people treated their transgender children, and I was shocked. I couldn't understand how someone would leave their child and throw them on the street....”

“I didn't tell him that the diagnosis came three months after I got my first period. Like: Congratulations! You're a woman. Now die.”

“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”

“We mourn the blossoms of May because they are to whither; but we know that May is one day to have its revenge upon November, by the revolution of that solemn circle which never stops---which...”

“Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.”

“Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.”

“Sometimes it is wise to be foolish and it takes wisdom to know when and for how long before returning to wisdom.”

“The view that man was ever to be drawn by some vision of the unattainable shining ahead, doomed ever to aspire, but not to achieve, my life and my values could not bring me to that.”

“We can talk about our dreams all night, Lisette. We can talk forever, for the rest of our lives, living one adventure after another, I promise. But not now, my darling Lisette. For now, all...”

“We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already.”

“We are our decisions.”

“At night on land migrating monarchs slumber on certain trees, hung in festoons with wings folded together, thick on the trees and shaggy as bearskin. [p. 244]”

“Would you mind repeating that? I'm afraid I might have lost my wits altogether and just hallucinated what I've longed to hear.”

“Rather he consoled himself with the fact that, in the real world, when he looked closely into the darkness he might find the presence of a light, damaged and bruised, but a little light all...”

“Love doesn't make the world go 'round; love is what makes the ride worthwhile.”

“TV's 'real' agenda is to be 'liked,' because if you like what you're seeing, you'll stay tuned. TV is completely unabashed about this; it's its sole raison.”

“I know what it is to live entirely for and with what I love best on earth. I hold myself supremely blest -- blest beyond what language can express; because I am my husband's life as fully as...”

“By being an athlete, I have uncovered so many other ways to express my beauty. Being a strong, fearless woman makes me feel beautiful. I love the way I look and feel when I am two hours into...”

“I just hate meetings. Though it's true that once you've made a lot of money, people around you might be full of ideas about ways to make lots more money and might be disappointed that you do...”

“Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.”

“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.”

“To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.”

“Time is money. They that value money more than time eventually lose both.”

“I've always had a thing for theme parks and their less-glorious cousins, amusement parks, the carnival midway, and others of such ilk.”

“Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them.”

“Journalism has changed tremendously because of the democratization of information. Anybody can put something up on the Internet. It's harder and harder to find what the truth is.”

“We ought to face our destiny with courage.”

“It gives me strength to have somebody to fight for; I can never fight for myself, but, for others, I can kill.”

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”

“Adversity presents itself in various forms from mild to the intensive extreme. Therefore, each form necessitates a different approach that matches or exceeds the intensity in the moment.”

“O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father refuse thy name, thou art thyself thou not a montegue, what is montegue? tis nor hand nor foot nor any other part belonging to a man...”