Every accepted public quote

“Take responsibility for your own happiness, do not expect people or things to bring you happiness, or you could be disappointed.”

“Nobody until very recently would have thought that their husband was supposed to be their best friend, confidante, intellectual soul mate, co-parent, inspiration.”

“Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.”

“I'm actually a true lyricist.”

“By denying the youth an education you murder the future RjS”

“If you don't stand for something, how can anyone respect what you do?”

“Sometimes emotions are more important than rationality.”

“The truth is that most of your Facebook friends are too busy counting their own 'likes' to pay attention to you for more than a few seconds anyway. Unless you happen to be a kitten who's in...”

“I'm one of those introverted people who simply feels a lot better after spending time alone thinking through ideas and emotions. This is a sign, I've come to think, of a kind of emotional di...”

“We cannot walk alone. And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back.”

“Slack is gratifying to work on in the same way that Flickr was. The mission is to make people's working lives simpler, more pleasant, more productive.”

“I think when you're acting, you usually don't have to know too much beyond how to pronounce the words you're saying.”

“One is happy as a result of one's own efforts-once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness-simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self-denial to a point, love of work, and, abo...”

“I'm really busted up over this and I'm very, very sorry to those people in the audience, the blacks, the Hispanics, whites - everyone that was there that took the brunt of that anger and hat...”

“I can't disguise myself with a wig and dark glasses - the wheelchair gives me away.”

“I show my scars so that others know they can heal.”

“While not impossible, it is especially challenging for teenage parents to develop bonds with their children. A high percent of them were themselves children of teenage parents and have never...”

“Where lowland is, that's where water goes. All medicine wants is pain to cure.”

“Once you get a reputation for emotional volatility, it can take years of model behavior to change how others see you.”

“My parents loved comedies, so we saw Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, the Ritz Brothers, and the Marx Brothers. I wanted to be one of them.”

“Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.”

“How would your life be different if...You decided to give freely, love fully, and play feverously? Let today be the day...You free yourself from the conditioned rules that limit your happine...”

“Nothing is granted, nothing is given. Like Adam and Eve we have o discover everything for ourselves.”

“I'm not personally obsessed with death. At a certain age, the light that you live in is inhabited by the shades - it 'tis.”

“Actors live dependent on being validated by other people's opinions. I don't understand what it is I do that people want. I don't know what an actor does. I have no credentials. I don't know...”

“To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.”

“Everyone on the planet has a dark and a light. That's a multi-dimensional character.”

“Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought. A theory however elegant and economical must be rejected or revised if it is untrue; likewise laws and...”

“Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.”

“Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime's length?”

“All writers should be put in a box and thrown in the sea.”

“What could be more convincing, moreover, than the gesture of laying one's cards face up on the table?”

“I don't have a collection, but I have a thing with jackets. I really like jackets. Whether it's an '80s motorbike jacket, or a Victorian jacket. I could wear the same jeans every day for mon...”

“I prefer to be a good human being rather than a good character on screen.”

“I get asked sometimes 'What's the highlight of my career?' because I've been doing it for so long, and I always have a hard time coming up with something, because so many good things have ha...”

“To build a truly diverse economy with a pipeline of skilled labor, technical college in Georgia should be free, and students should be able to graduate debt-free from the public institution...”

“It's a hard thing for me to wrap my mind around the C word: celebrity. Rock stars are celebrities because they're larger than life. As an actor, you have to play the everyman and the everygi...”

“I love a good road trip. And I have been known to sing cheesy '80s songs at the top of my lungs on a windy road when no one can hear.”

“At a big company, often size turns into constipation; it fogs the lens about what's really happening. Sometimes with size and success comes the notion that since we've done things to be succ...”

“God helps those who help themselves.”

“I was pleasantly surprised to find out that pirates did wear eye patches and have peg legs and have brightly colored beads. I never knew what the beads were for. They really were for frighte...”

“The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.”

“I think the nine justices think the solicitor general is the 35th clerk.”

“I am, apparently, of that rare breed that likes to write. The demands of a chapter pull me from bed in the morning, and regardless of how well I think I know the day's road ahead, there are...”

“True, the apostles did not expressly say that people will be saved only if they repent, believe, and confess. But most evangelicals assume - with good reason - that this is what the apostles...”

“I don't write with a scheme or a plan. I write word to word, so whatever that first sentence is, having said that, one more or less had to say what comes next and next and next. Guilty of no...”

“My one suggestion going forward is, any felony committed against a woman should be a full-season suspension.”

“Every lawyer is an actor. The place where a lawyer's acting ability shines most is certainly in the courtroom, but it works very well in the boardroom and in the office.”