Every accepted public quote

“Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.”

“Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.”

“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.”

“You won't lag behind, because you'll have the speed. You'll pass the whole gang and you'll soon take the lead. Wherever you fly, you'll be best of the best. Wherever you go, you will top all...”

“The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.”

“Books, too, had hearts, though they were not the same as people's, and a book's heart could be broken: she had seen it happen before. Grimoires that refused to open, their voices gone silent...”

“Hey, nothing grows to the sky. There will be a successor movement. Right now it's nascent.”

“The trick is to enjoy life. Don't wish away your days, waiting for better ones ahead.”

“When she fucked up all those years ago, just a little girl terrified into paralysis, she fell onto the enigma of herself.”

“I only do this because I'm having fun. The day I stop having fun, I'll just walk away.”

“let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences”

“You win some, lose some, and wreck some.”

“That's typically what writers do; we just sit around complaining most of the time. And the better things are going, the more they complain.”

“I'm not one of these guys who sits around saying, 'Gee, I mean, the person had a strange childhood and that's why he's doing this horrible thing. Poor Jeffrey Dahmer. He's just had a bad chi...”

“The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.”

“I am an optimist... I choose to be. There is a lot of darkness in our world, there is a lot of pain and you can choose to see that or you can choose to see the joy. If you try to respond pos...”

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear.”

“Reject the premise that one must follow established norms be they societal, religious or acts of nature; instead, wisdom teaches to do what is right.; what is entrenched is not necessarily f...”

“I'm all over the place with muffins. Carrots are great. Banana, chocolate chip, they rock, too.”

“Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.”

“How could I live above the water or breathe under it. How could I swim in darkness consumed in an ocean of you? Falling or flying towards you, losing or finding myself in you and beauty was...”

“I got my heart's desire, and there my troubles began.”

“Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.”

“As all of us are only too aware, the loud and frantic voices of the outer world easily drown out the small, still loving voice within.”

“I don't believe my house was haunted. I think I had an overactive imagination, and I was so convinced that those around me became convinced, too.”

“I want to do things that terrify me, unless they're going to kill me.”

“How can you write if you can't cry?”

“Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.”

“There is nothing harder for me than to sit at the sideline, not being able to be productive.”

“True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one's true character, to be altogether one's self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion.”

“The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management skills of celery.”

“I love being a mom and having two kids. But I've had two C-sections, and I have suffered enough. That's my favourite mantra when it comes to motherhood.”

“My goats are not contemplative, accepting, or introspective. They are the Greek chorus of my farm, sometimes of my life. They watch me closely and remind me that I am foolish.”

“Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.”

“Don't be so loyal to your mind; the mind is not loyal to You.”

“There comes a time when we realize that our parents cannot save themselves or save us, that everyone who wades through time eventually gets dragged out to sea by the undertow- that, in short...”

“If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.”

“Challenging the truth is like playing tennis against the wall! The defeat is inevitable!”

“Librarians are essential players in the information revolution because they level that field. They enable those without money or education to read and learn the same things as the billionair...”

“We've all forgotten how to be original.”

“I think if I've learned anything about friendship, it's to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don't walk away, don't be distracted, don't be too busy or tir...”

“Money is the poor people's credit card.”

“I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.”

“I pretend not to be a champion of that same naked virtue called truth, to the very outrance. I can consent that her charms be hidden with a veil, were it but for decency's sake.”

“I had a dream about you last night.. you were holding a pine cone and introducing him as Gerald.”

“If you work hard in real life, people tend to get in your way - either from inertia or prejudice - and they stop you achieving things. It's the worst thing about real life compared with spor...”

“The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.”

“Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.”