Every accepted public quote

“I guess what really forms you as a person is what you do within your family to receive love or attention. In my family, what you had to do to receive attention was to have good conversation...”

“In the factory we make cosmetics; in the drugstore we sell hope.”

“Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.”

“The economic dependence of women is perhaps the greatest injustice that has been done to us, and has worked the greatest injury to the race.”

“A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.”

“When you're making a reality show, you can't even plan a week ahead now.”

“Establishing a friendship after divorce takes great effort and a lot of swallowing of your pride and ego.”

“The tragedy is that we cannot believe the dogmas of religion and metaphysics if we have the strict methods of truth in heart and head, but on the other hand, we have become through the devel...”

“The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.”

“Don't limit a child to your own learning, for she was born in another time.”

“Those who want to reap the benefits of this great nation must bear the fatigue of supporting it.”

“When we are in love, we are convinced nobody else will do. But as time goes, others do do, and often do do, much much better.”

“The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.”

“Glenn used to say the reason you can't really imagine yourself being dead was that as soon as you say, 'I'll be dead,' you've said the word I, and so you're still alive inside the sentence....”

“There is not a flower that opens, not a seed that falls into the ground, and not an ear of wheat that nods on the end of its stalk in the wind that does not preach and proclaim the greatness...”

“Belief means not wanting to know what is true.”

“She had storms all her life, but she died peacefully.”

“Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never is, but always to be blest.”

“I don't try to imagine a personal God; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.”

“I'm not very good at being a performing monkey.”

“A wise man, to accomplish his end, may even carry his foe on his shoulder.”

“It's just the risk that I take and the sacrifice that I make: Putting myself, my career, my family's peace of mind on the line just to do right by my fans. It ain't no gray area: You're eith...”

“From the stars, to the stars.”

“It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection.”

“There is no point at which you can say, "Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap."”

“There is no try. There is only do.”

“The petty economies of the rich are just as amazing as the silly extravagances of the poor.”

“Formal education teaches how to stand, but to see the rainbow you must come out and walk many steps on your own.”

“Evil is real but God is greater.”

“Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.”

“I might kiss you. I might be bad at it. That's not possible.”

“But I miss screamin' and fightin' and kissin' in the rain and it's 2 a.m. and I'm cursin' your name. You're so in love the you act insane, and that's the way I loved you.”

“I think that a lot of people in all walks of life have the impression, of course, that, 'I specialize in something. I can't - I don't have the time to read other things. I'll just go to pure...”

“The connections we make in the course of a life--maybe that's what heaven is.”

“I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't, luckily, have to bother abo...”

“Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”

“If I do cardio I'll disappear.”

“My passion is capturing what it feels like to love, be it romantic or otherwise. I love to watch two people realize what they meant for each other - and that goes across all media, books, TV...”

“And then the line was quite but not dead. I almost felt like he was there in my room with me, but in a way it was better, like I was not in my room and he was not in his, but instead we were...”

“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without words and never stops at all.”

“Just because you can doesn't mean you should.”

“I sat next to a young woman on a plane once who bombarded me for five hours with how she had decided to be born again and so should I. I told her I was glad for her, but I hadn't used up bei...”

“Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone's singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person.”

“As long as you keep one foot in the real world while the other foot's in a fairy tale, that fairy tale is going to seem kind of attainable.”

“To rewrite history on the bases of hypotheses which have not materialized is not only a fruitless task, but, in my eyes, meaningless.”

“Wisdom is freedom”

“I'm not going to say that I'm perfect. I do have fashion crises.”

“Books are sharks... because sharks have been around for a very long time. There were sharks before there were dinosaurs, and the reason sharks are still in the ocean is that nothing is bette...”