Every accepted public quote

“How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also If I am to be whole.”

“Look at situations from all angles, and you will become more open.”

“I don't avoid carbs. I don't avoid protein. I think it's just, again, about balance and finding what works for you and your body. For me, having a higher protein, higher carbohydrate, and mi...”

“Plan did I, perhaps too much, yet if not, how can one see where one is heading?”

“The perspection of your perception brings about a precision in you as a person”

“We mistakenly equate flattery to friendship and criticism to opposition; one should evaluate truth first and then judge, for flattery and criticism are primarily opinion.”

“Being gay isn't something you choose, but you do face choices about whether and how to discuss it.”

“With happiness comes intelligence to the heart.”

“Misunderstanding is my cornerstone. It's everyone's, come to think of it. Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet.”

“To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.”

“Anyone can take your life but not what you believe in.”

“All your life, you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye. And when something nudges it into outline, it is like being ambushed by a grotesque.”

“We have to knock down the barriers erected by greed, special interests, powerful forces.”

“Kobe Bryant has always been my favorite player, and he was drafted No. 13, too, in 1996.”

“I will take the Ring,' [Frodo] said, 'though I do not know the way.”

“Backstage life is terrific training for an actor, seeing shows from the wings.”

“Stars really are like anyone else. At the end of the day, Brad Pitt poops - as handsome as he may be - and so does Angelina Jolie.”

“A lot of people judge bisexuality as 'being promiscuous' or something like that. But I believe you can love somebody; you can fall in love with a person's soul.”

“Don't mistake pleasures for happiness. They are a different breed of dog.”

“We join spokes together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that makes the wagon move. We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want. We hammer wood...”

“But that's the tricky thing about love. If you aren't the type to walk away, and you aren't the kind of person who moves on quickly, you subsequently become the one who stays.”

“Do not tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.”

“It is better to be looked over than overlooked.”

“Some of the most beautiful things we have in life comes from our mistakes.”

“Be persevering at the bottom, humble at the top.”

“Soul appears when we make room for it.”

“Every man is free to rise as far as he's able or willing, but the degree to which he thinks determines the degree to which he'll rise.”

“The more one forgets himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is.”

“During the bus boycott, I was tested by fire, and I came to understand that I was not a breakable crystal figurine.”

“There's an audience out there for all these different types of things. Whether it's comedy, motion-picture drama, family movie or a cool, cutting-edge indie, it's nice to know that I can spa...”

“Ebb I know what my heart is like Since your love died: It is like a hollow ledge Holding a little pool Left there by the tide, A little tepid pool, Drying inward from the edge.”

“I'm sorry. I know you loved her. It was hard not to.”

“But, of course, you might be asking yourself, 'Am I a feminist? I might not be. I don't know! I still don't know what it is! I'm too knackered and confused to work it out. That curtain pole...”

“He's a wallflower. You see things. You keep quiet about them. And you understand.”

“The perils of credit and debt, especially perilous in the computer age, have long been acknowledged in pop culture, but very infrequently by TV.”

“Everyone's gone through a breakup, and I've dated girls in the past where... I've never had a messy breakup, thankfully, but I'm never the one to end it. I'm always caught off guard as to wh...”

“Nearly always, there exist an inverse relationship between function and form. In other words, when something is made more beautiful, it becomes less functional. This maxim can be applied to...”

“As far as I can tell, there are two basic (kissing) rules: 1. Don't bite anything without permission. 2. The human tongue is like wasabi: it's very powerful, and should be used sparingly.”

“Meditation is a way for nourishing and blossoming the divinity within you.”

“No, this trick won't work. . . . How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?”

“A smiling lie is a whirlwind, easy to enter, but hard to escape.”

“For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And the stars never rise but i feel the bright eyes Of the beautiful Annabel Lee.”

“Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.”

“A windmill is eternally at work to accomplish one end, although it shifts with every variation of the weather cock, and assumes 10 different positions in a day.”

“I think our democracy has it exactly right: two terms, eight years. It's enough. Because it's important to have one foot in reality when you have access to this kind of power.”

“To me, a leader is someone who holds her- or himself accountable for finding potential in people and processes. And so what I think is really important is sustainability.”

“When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.”

“The fly ought to be used as the symbol of impertinence and audacity, for whilst all other animals shun man more than anything else, and run away even before he comes near them, the fly light...”