Every accepted public quote

“The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.”

“I'd love to go back to Europe in the '20s and '30s, for the beginning of the Psychoanalytic Movement, and Freud and Jung, and all that was going on with discoveries in quantum physics. The w...”

“We all have our ways of handling fear and managing trying; jumping in or climbing down, a direct approach or a delay, joyful or miserable, a spirit of adventure, or God help me, get this thi...”

“We need to teach our kids, because there is such a celebrity culture at the moment, that however rich you are, however famous you are, however glamorous you are, everyone has to live by the...”

“One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.”

“Many visitors to Chicago know the Loop, the shops on the Magnificent Mile, and the Museum Campus. Meanwhile, much of the bustle is in the developing neighborhoods around the Loop: North, Sou...”

“That is the beauty of the Common Law, it is a maze and not a motorway.”

“I had a lot of friends in high school, but I was never the wild party girl. Never have been, never plan to be!”

“Evangelicals overwhelmingly voted for Ronald Reagan - not because he was the most religious candidate, but he possessed the quality evangelicals felt like was most important, and that is lea...”

“Habituated from our Infancy to trample upon the Rights of Human Nature, every generous, every liberal Sentiment, if not extinguished, is enfeebled in our Minds.”

“A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.”

“God formed an alliance based on the world as it is, full of flaws, whereas prayer calls God to account for the world as it should be.”

“I know that some books and some writers, you can pretty much draw a square around it and say, 'Nobody under 40,' or 'Nobody under 25.' With my books, it always has been, and continues to be,...”

“There's only one thing harder than living in a home with an adolescent - and that's being an adolescent. The moodiness, the volatility, the wholesale lack of impulse control, all would be cl...”

“I definitely want to go out and explore different personalities and different people.”

“The act of song writing and recording became one and the same to me; because I essentially recorded everything I did from the day I began trying to write songs. I've always had a lot to say....”

“It is worth noting that 'too big to fail' is not simply about size. A big institution is 'too big' when there is an expectation that government will do whatever it takes to rescue that insti...”

“I have a beautiful wife and two beautiful children, and every day I am paid to do what I love.”

“Putting out music as it's made, versus holding it until an album's finished, allows me to be more timely and maintain balance.”

“Neuer is by far the best keeper I've played with and is also outstanding outfield.”

“The Environmental Protection Agency rarely follows up prosecuting coal companies and their fellow polluters, even when the evidence is clear-cut that they are dumping and poisoning entire to...”

“I was held hostage and almost executed by a man who was robbing us in the middle of the night.”

“To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.”

“I really gravitate toward having all different styles in my closet because I feel like I always want to dress to fit my mood or where I am going. I do love Jason Wu; he is also a really good...”

“No one is immune to the trials and tribulations of life.”

“I was told all my life I was part Cherokee. Then it was Crow. The latest is Blackfoot.”

“I am used to praying when I am alone, thank God. But when I come together with other people, when I need more than ever to pray, I still cannot get used to it.”

“When my hair is picked out, my whole aura is picked out, like, 'See this, see me.'”

“Government should exist in order to help fortify the country and make those who are in need better able to meet their own.”

“When I look at me, I think I'm a good catch. Why wouldn't somebody like me for me? I'm a pleasant person. I'm an intelligent person. I'm a good person. I'm not bad looking. Why wouldn't I be...”

“As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.”

“I couldn't accept the racial epithets in reference to players like Elliott Maddox or Billy Sample.”

“To me, when I think of New Age, I think of crystals and rainbows and platitudes.”

“When a gift is difficult to give away, it becomes even more rare and precious, somehow gathering a part of the giver to the gift itself.”

“Vin Scully has been my broadcasting idol for a long time. He is so humble - he has the exact same work ethic that he had 65 years ago. His family is what he cares about the most, and at the...”

“Every single day, I wake up and take a glimpse of where I am now compared to where I was before, and the work that we have all put in to be in this space. I think of that, and being able to...”

“I am a little nervous with strangers. But I'm not tight inside. I think I am impulsive.”

“Learning how to be a good parent was easy in the end because I'd basically had the What Not To Do manual.”

“My mom gets mad because she'll read on Twitter or some message board that Spencer Paysinger is no good, and the Giants need to get rid of him. I tell her to stop reading that stuff because,...”

“Clean up your own mess.”

“My theme song is 'One Tin Soldier' by Coven.”

“I went to a modeling agency and said I wanted to be a model. I worked, worked, worked so much while I was studying.”

“Stop pretending there's anything wrong with businesspeople hiring diligent laborers who will work for less. Let employers sponsor any worker and argue for why that worker should be given cit...”

“I think if I had a choice, I'd like to be in a film with De Niro.”

“In a time of serious budget deficits, immense war costs and a sluggish economy, we cannot afford to grant such outlandish subsidies to some of our Nation's largest corporations.”

“I feel an intense intimacy with those who have this loathing interest in me. Further than this, I know what they mean, I sympathize with them, I understand them. There should be a name (as p...”

“I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job.”

“Malice is always authentic and sincere.”