Every accepted public quote

“We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.”

“With writing, we have second chances.”

“One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.”

“Growing up in Australia and the way I was raised, my dad told me to play as a team and to be a team player. You have five guys on the court. It's easy for five guys to defend one guy. It's h...”

“I've wined and dined with kings and queens, and I've slept in the alley eating pork and beans.”

“I always loved both 'Breakout' and 'Asteroids' - I thought they were really good games. There was another game called 'Tempest' that I thought was really cool, and it represented a really ha...”

“The whole scale and scope of the decorating and fashion business in this country are incomparably grander than in London. What's thrilling about America in general, and the New York fashion...”

“Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.”

“I think that communism was a major force for violence for more than 100 years, because it was built into its ideology - that progress comes through class struggle, often violent.”

“The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet...”

“When I started writing about vampires, I swore that I wouldn't touch the 'Dracula' legend because it's been done too many times.”

“A lot of times, people feel that if they forgive the person who hurt them, then they will continue to take advantage of them or not take responsibility for what they did wrong.”

“Justice comes in its own time ~ 'Those Were The Days' -- Mala Naidoo”

“The dilemma is this. In the modern world knowledge has been growing so fast and so enormously, in almost every field, that the probabilities are immensely against anybody, no matter how inna...”

“Football: War with cleats and pads.”

“All killer whales are named Kevin. You knew that, right?”

“The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.”

“It's a good bet that if Jesse Jackson calls something a 'civil rights issue,' it's not.”

“People in Nevada know me from the street to the ring to the Senate chambers. I've never had to prove my manhood to anyone.”

“I experienced bullying a lot. I was an only child, and I was kind of a small kid with a big mouth, and so I always got myself in trouble.”

“If you wanna know how not secure you are, just take a look around. Nothing's secure. Nothing's safe. I don't hate technology, I don't hate hackers, because that's just what comes with it, wi...”

“All our lives, we fight for certain ideals, and they get diluted, and then we have to fight for them again.”

“Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.”

“People are really talkative in New York. Someone always comes up to me and says 'Hi' during the day.”

“Estimation, assessment, looking back, retrospecting things - those are intellectual concepts, and they're always so subject to shifts in the wind.”

“I was once again looking for a book idea, and I remembered Holmes, but I specifically remembered that there was this World's Fair thing in the background. I thought, 'I'll read about the fai...”

“I personally do not find puke funny. I find it disgusting.”

“You meet a lot of people and have a lot of experiences, and they color you and stay with you - but I'm not the grieving widow. Life is much more complicated and interesting and full of zigs...”

“It is in nature, among the things which God has created, designed and brought forth Himself, that we are in the most natural atmosphere to be inspired. Creative ideas are apt to flow in the...”

“If you have a strong purpose in life, you don't have to be pushed. Your passion will drive you there.”

“Scientists use satellites to track weather, map ice sheet melting, detect diseases, show ecosystem change... the list goes on and on. I think nearly every scientific field benefits or could...”

“Whatever you want, you have the power to attain it. The man or woman who calmly and matter-of-factly accepts this pronouncement at face value will soon find himself working magical accomplis...”

“When someone important to you, someone that's played a big role in your life, when they're gone... When you write about them or pay tribute to them, you want to do it in a way that's thought...”

“...when two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possible for one side to be simply wrong.”

“I don't want to take power. I want to break the wall of this autocratic regime.”

“Depression is internal. The upswings and downswings have pretty much nothing to do with what's going on in the external world. It's not like something sad happens to you and then you feel sa...”

“The dissolution of the nation destroys the national religion, and dethrones the national deity.”

“I've never concerned myself with the labels people want to put on you. What matters to me is my own estimation.”

“The attacks of September 11 - and subsequent acts of terror from London to Madrid to Fort Hood, Texas - embody the most repulsive of human instincts, the will to power at the price of the li...”

“I've always been really, really aware of my insecurities - really, really aware. I never developed that thick skin that keeps you from letting things get to you.”

“I'm insecure about everything, because... I'm never going to look in the mirror and see this blond, blue-eyed girl. That is my idea of what I'd like to look like.”

“If we carry on filling up the calendar, we keep on pushing the athlete, we shorten the athletes longevity. The risk is to shorten a career that could have lasted 10 years because the athlete...”

“Fans all have their memories of pennant races, good memories, sick memories.”

“To carry our cross is to have such a commitment and identify with Jesus Christ and what He accomplished that I am willing to suffer the repercussions to that identification.”

“I want to build to that mogul, legendary level.”

“As a precious metal, silver is also money.”

“We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.”

“I'm not gonna ever announce that I'm going to do an album again. Waking up with that on your head almost doesn't allow you to make the best album you can.”