Every accepted public quote

“When you mature in your relationship with God you realize how suffering and patience are like eating your spiritual vegetables.”

“One thing about being a stand-up is it's a one-man show. You gotta do everything. You're the producer, writer, director, and the actor. You just gotta be out there and perform and give your...”

“Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll buy a funny hat. Talk to a hungry man about fish, and you're a consultant.”

“I don't know about England so much, but in Germany and some of these other countries, the pink was something that they liked. For those kids, the pink and black and the whole look with the s...”

“If you spend a lot of energy on things that are wastes of time, then you waste energy, get sick, and die faster.”

“I have plenty of vanity in my life. I want to look pretty in the world. But it can be this bottomless pit.”

“It is inconceivable for our unconscious to imagine an actual ending of our own life here on Earth, and if this life of ours has to end, the ending is always attributed to a malicious interve...”

“Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.”

“Army Specialist Bradley Manning deserves a medal, not prison.”

“One of Wordsworth's Lake District neighbours remarked, upon hearing of the poet's death "I suppose his son will carry on the business."”

“When I was 17, my dad was teaching in the States. He hired an A-Team-style van, and we drove all over. My resounding memory of it was that we saw all these wonderful places but that my siste...”

“Don't make any opinion if you haven't correct knowledge”

“As one retiring chief executive said to his successor "Yesterday was the last day you heard the truth from your subordinates."”

“The air of England has long been too pure for a slave, and every man is free who breathes it.”

“How comedic are squirrels? We don't have squirrels in Australia. The first time I saw a squirrel was at a meeting at Disney.”

“If people want to believe that the organic food has better nutritive value, it's up to them to make that foolish decision. But there's absolutely no research that shows that organic foods pr...”

“The Obama economy has led to the lowest labor force participation since 1978.”

“I used to go through the dictionary looking for unusual but nontechnical words. At one time, I thought the greatest word was 'jejune' and I would throw it into every piece because something...”

“The life can always change for any of us, and the one who was on the bottom once might turn up on the top when you least expect it, and vice versa.”

“Being a professional screenwriter is perhaps the hardest occupation. Because nothing is ever yours and, by the nature of the medium, you are never ultimately responsible for your work. It ca...”

“I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in.”

“Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.”

“If something is free it cannot be measured. It becomes invaluable.”

“No serious futurist deals in prediction. These are left for television oracles and newspaper astrologers.”

“'I'm Yours' was written effortlessly in about 20 minutes' time, and I honestly thought it was more of like a kids' song, and I didn't do anything with it for years.”

“I never regret any of the work I've done.”

“French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.”

“Reinforced concrete buildings are by nature skeletal buildings. No noodles nor armoured turrets. A construction of girders that carry the weight, and walls that carry no weight. That is to s...”

“People are born with the ability to make judgments. And they can't help but use the information they have to divine something about the world they're in. Making categorical judgments, in lar...”

“20th-century totalitarian movements were no more defined by a rejection of Judeo-Christianity than they were defined by a rejection of astrology, alchemy, Confucianism, Scientology, or any o...”

“I did grow up with Michael Landau, my brother since we were 12 years old. That was competition but in the best way. He is such a monster, always was, and we had a blast growing up playing in...”

“When you as a designer design something that burdens a community with maintenance and old world technology, basically failed developed world technology, then you will crush that community wa...”

“I don't want to get into extended conversations with people on MySpace, because there are friends I have extended conversations with every day.”

“Leather and lace is such a sexy combination.”

“I think when 'The Simpsons' first came on, there was an uproar. People got used to it. They realized the show's really funny, it's got a heart, so I think it's pretty safe.”

“Illustrations have as much to say as the text. The trick is to say the same thing, but in a different way. It's no good being an illustrator who is saying a lot that is on his or her mind, i...”

“You, my dear, have gone through things no one has a clue about and you survived. Even though you don't talk about it anymore, Be proud of yourself for not giving up. Be Proud!”

“The question was heatedly debated of how much Western culture should be brought into China.”

“When it's the funeral scene of 'My Girl,' and Thomas is in the casket, and the young lady is screaming that he can't see without his glasses, you can absolutely, absolutely cry. Perfectly bi...”

“Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man”

“I always try to be positive but the negativity that surrounding us is endless and ridiculous”

“Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age.”

“To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor”

“Whenever I sing blues from the '50s or the kind of blues that you might have heard Eric Clapton or Duane Allman emulate, I often feel the similarity of some of the ragtime stuff I sang early...”

“Self-discovery is the gateway to knowledge.”

“I'm not good at anything except writing jokes. I wasn't good at sports, I wasn't good at anything artsy, ever. I think there was a real worry for a while about what I would be good at. I was...”

“I once pitched this show that was just like 'Quantum Leap,' in terms of the set-up, and I got a pass because they said 'Quantum Leap' didn't work, even though it was on for six or seven seas...”

“It's unbelievable, there's a book out attacking Gore, when he's the most unfortunate loser in political history.”