One of my mission statements with all of my art has been to stop the world for people. I want to stop the worrying and stop the world.

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.

I know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the biggest geek alive. No one, I mean no one, even talked to me.

My soul is not contained within the limits of my body; my body is contained within the limitlessness of my soul.

I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it's not the answer.

Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.

150 people die every year from being hit by falling coconuts. Not to worry, drug makers are developing a vaccine.

Flowers don't worry about how they're going to bloom. They just open up & turn toward the light & that makes them beautiful.

I got a lot of support from my parents. That's the one thing I always appreciated. They didn't tell me I was being stupid; they told me I was being funny.

Ever since I started to get recognition I've picked out certain fans and reverse-stalked them.

Everything you gain in life will rot and fall apart, and all that will be left of you is what was in your heart.

His absence is so big it's like he's there.

But the fruit that can fall without shaking indeed is too mellow for me.

We need to reclaim the word feminism. We need to reclaim the word feminism real bad.

Forgiveness is the finding again of a lost possession.

I thought she'd [her mother] offer me some sympathy. Instead, she said, 'Don't you ever call me crying again! You wanted to be in this business, so you better toughen up!' And I did.

All these words, words like 'evil' and 'vicious', they meant nothing to Nature. Yes, evil was a human invention.

"We've devoted our lives to learning about them!" Miro said. Ender stopped. "Not from them."

I am deeply concerned about the kind of people Hillary Clinton's surrounded herself with in the past.

Some rules are bigger than the universe.

Be reverent before the dawning day. Do not think of what will be in a year, or in ten years. Think of to-day.