Every accepted public quote

“Everything is organic. I got the wordplay, I got the vocabulary to really, really rap.”

“Today's public education system is a failed monopoly: bureaucratic, rigid and in unsteady control of dissatisfied captive markets.”

“Every new minute we're alive is a miracle.”

“Philosophers are people who know less and less about more and more, until they know nothing about everything. Scientists are people who know more and more about less and less, until they kno...”

“I really have had to swallow my own prejudice at times.”

“The true definition of mental illness is when the majority of your time is spent in the past or future, but rarely living in the realism of NOW.”

“The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.”

“Writing is what I do. It's like breathing to me at a certain point, but if I couldn't write, I do like cooking.”

“If not for him, I would never have become the man I am today. I ask you not to hold it against him. He meant well.”

“St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.”

“When I eventually met Mr. Right I had no idea that his first name was Always.”

“When one has not had a good father, one must create one.”

“Compromise brings harmony to both, happiness to none.”

“A Who's Who of pesticides is therefore of concern to us all. If we are going to live so intimately with these chemicals eating and drinking them, taking them into the very marrow of our bone...”

“The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.”

“Man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.”

“Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.”

“Your improvement may bother people who are used to you existing below their level. They may openly campaign for you to get your life together, but they secretly relish their superiority over...”

“The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.”

“The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.”

“Pregnancy isn't 'I can eat whatever I want,' because you have to remember you're going to be stuck with a lot of that weight afterwards that you need to try to get off.”

“Old wounds frighten me more than those that are ahead of me. I am afraid that the stitches might bleed again.”

“To fans in a festival setting it's like a picnic. You want to have a good time with your friends in that crowd. And in the background you hear the band play, 'Oh, that's my favorite song!' e...”

“...I doubt very seriously whether anyone will hire me.' What do you mean, babe? You a fine boy with a good education.' Employers sense in me a denial of their values.' He rolled over onto hi...”

“Try looking at your mind as a wayward puppy that you are trying to paper train. You don't drop-kick a puppy into the neighbor's yard every time it piddles on the floor. You just keep bringin...”

“Buffalo Wild Wings is always a good choice.”

“Sometimes pain is so unmanageable that the idea of spending another day with it seems impossible. Other times pain acts as a compass to help you get through the messier tunnels of growing up...”

“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”

“Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best.”

“There's nothing wrong with the screaming style of singing, and I'll be the first to admit that it conveys an emotion. But I'm getting older, and I can't scream and shout about the same thing...”

“English football is very different, and I had to adapt to it much more than I would have had if I had stayed in the Russian league. But after a season, I felt a lot better, a lot fitter.”

“The world will be brighter and wiser without religions, but it will surely be darker and more hopeless without God!”

“We shared our father with the world.”

“Few men would dare to read their own autobiography if all their deeds were recorded in it; few can look back upon their entire career without a blush.”

“The dark or the night comes before the light of dawn, but no matter how long the night may seem, sunrise WILL come and daylight WILL break through. so keep going and don't give up.”

“Sometimes your heart is the only thing worth listening to.”

“I prefer to be seen as a know-nothing idiot, than a know-it-all bigot.”

“No, I'm just a very naughty boy. I do all sorts of bad things. I kick kittens. I make rude gestures at nuns.”

“Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.”

“I don't have a normal life, but personally I love spending time with normal people.”

“I don't believe that I personally have been changed by the money. The bad thing is people assume you've changed because now you have money.”

“Wisdom comes alone through suffering.”

“Ignoring fame was my rebellion, in a funny way. I was insistent on being normal and doing normal things. It probably wasn't advisable to go to college in America and room with a complete str...”

“Church was doing what he often did when dropped - lying on his back with all four legs in the air, pretending to be dead in order to induce guilt in his owners.”

“My dad had limitations. That's what my good-hearted mom always told us. He had limitations, but he meant no harm. It was kind of her to say, but he did do harm.”

“I think everybody should focus on inner beauty.”

“Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.”

“When I was growing up, officers in uniform were very impressive to me. They were doing a job. They were protecting our country; they were heroes. When you wear an old military jacket, there'...”