Every accepted public quote

“I am like a little pencil in God's hand. He does the writing. The pencil has nothing to do with it.”

“Life is short. Do whatever you can to help people - not for status, but because the 95-year-old you will be proud if you did help people and disappointed if you didn't.”

“For four to six months at a time, I would barely eat. I lived on a diet of Melba toast, carrots, and black coffee.”

“Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, b...”

“When the 30-year-old lawyer died he said to St. Peter, "How can you do this to me? - a heart attack at my age? I'm only 30." Replied St. Peter: "When we looked at your total hours billed we...”

“Do I provoke as a method of investigation? Of course. That's the essence of architecture. Do I do it with gusto? I do.”

“Scratch a Russian, and you'll find a peasant.”

“My imagination is a twisted place.”

“I'm very sure of myself - what I do and what I like.”

“My books may highlight corruption, brutality and venality, but they also show that if these things come to light, there is rectification. The voiceless do have a voice; democratic mechanisms...”

“If everybody has to take biology and chemistry, they can take computer science. Computer science is a more useful skill right now than a lot of other things that people are learning at schoo...”

“I was in 'The Postman Always Rings Twice' with Jack Nicholson. That was fun. I think I made, like, $33 or something. I got to miss a whole day of school, and when you're a little kid, that's...”

“A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.”

“Don't violate the law, but don't reject an idea because it's illegal. You might be able to get the law changed.”

“I had a wonderful contact, especially with Uncle Bert who was an angel and led the whole group over to my side of a steep ravine I could not cross to get over to them.”

“If we examine the Hague Convention carefully, we see that it considers the offer of good offices a duty of every nation. In other words, such offers should be made whenever a dispute becomes...”

“I don't believe in democracy by bayonet.”

“I wanted to be a physician, but that was not my ultimate goal. My ultimate goal was to find joy and happiness in the service of others.”

“Antibiotics have serious adverse reactions: diarrhea, anaphylaxis, allergies, rashes. We don't give these medications without discussing the risks and benefits and only when they're properly...”

“Any new thing that comes out with the ability to enhance our show or my ability to communicate with fans and give people more behind-the-scenes access, you know we'll be all over it.”

“Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.”

“That part, that internal dialogue that has a lot of ups and downs and darks and lights and stuff - that, I think, is where music comes from. I think the face that you put on when you're talk...”

“'Brokeback Mountain' just blew me away. I'll always remember talking to Heath Ledger just after he finished that movie and he was going on about working with Ang and how incredible he was.”

“The Hamas organization is explicitly dedicated to the destruction of Israel. That is not a rhetorical gimmick; it is its declared unwavering primary goal.”

“An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.”

“What is the difference between a terrorist and a soldier? The actions are now identical, both act to produce terror, so probably the only standing difference is that terrorists are non-gover...”

“I was always told that I'd have to do a movie with a white guy in order to get the money. That's the way it was. That made me feel that I should have chosen some other profession, so I could...”

“A fault is fostered by concealment.”

“I am prepared to talk with anyone. I have no personal grudge toward anybody.”

“Perhaps more than any other disease before or since, syphilis in early modern Europe provoked the kind of widespread moral panic that AIDS revived when it struck America in the 1980s.”

“The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; that is, that one is male and the other female.”

“Have you realized that today is the tomorrow you talked about yesterday? It is your responsibility to change your life for the better.”

“A vampire's thirst can only be quenched by the blood of their loved ones.”

“The task of modern man is not to find his inner self, but to create himself.”

“I drink booze, I smoke, and I'm hooked on caffeine. I actually have been known to swear at times and belch and even raise my voice when provoked. And I'm not physically repressed!”

“Direction is always on my wish list.”

“I find that the thing that makes every body look the best is great toning, and really, really targeting the muscles, and low cardio, where you're sculpting and getting your heart rate up but...”

“When women go wrong, men go right after them.”

“If you have to set goals and you choose what you can do. You won't break the record or make history.”

“The dream of empire died when Shanghai surrendered without a fight. Even at the age of 11 or 12, I knew that no amount of patriotic newsreels would put the Union Jack jigsaw together again....”

“We have the capacity to receive messages from the stars and the songs of the night winds.”

“I don't like clocks.”

“When I turned 40, subconsciously, life was a blank sheet. Before, it was disjointed, and I was very displaced and quite mad, but it was a brilliant time. Everyone thinks I must have been unh...”

“When you're young, working in a warehouse or selling hot dogs, you look at work - at acting - as something precious. It gets you out of the stink.”

“A wise choice is when you become a capital choice to many.”

“The mother provides a spirit with a womb and nurtures it for months before birth, and years thereafter.”

“If nothing changes then nothing changes.”

“Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.”