Every accepted public quote

“It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.”

“Your question is the most difficult in the world. It is not a question I can answer simply with yes or no. I am not an Atheist. I do not know if I can define myself as a Pantheist. The probl...”

“If your payloads cost hundreds of millions of dollars, they actually cost more than the launch. It puts a lot of pressure on the launch vehicle not to change, to be very stable. Reliability...”

“Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.”

“When I was very, very young, I decided that I was gonna catalogue my times because that's what other people who I admired did. That's what Bob Dylan did, that's what Frank Sinatra did, Hank...”

“Successful is one whose imitators are successful.”

“Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.”

“We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.”

“If everything really does get better, the way everyone claims, then happiness should be graphable. But that's crap, because better isn't quantifiable.”

“If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work.”

“The little things are infinitely the most important.”

“Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.”

“When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.”

“I knew no one who'd ever been in the public eye.”

“Certainly tolerance and acceptance were at the forefront of my music.”

“I don't like false happy endings, and I don't think the real world is such a forgiving place.”

“Artificial Intelligence can be a supplement to human insight, not substitute.”

“It's almost like the better I do, the more my feeling of inadequacy actually increases, because I'm just going, 'Any moment, someone's going to find out I'm a total fraud, and that I don't d...”

“Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.”

“When billionaires can give $50 million, $500 million to a campaign, and there's no limit, then it makes a mockery of 'one man, one vote.'”

“I don't talk trash often, but when I do, I go for the jugular.”

“The food was so good that with each passing course, our conversation devolved further into fragmented celebrations of its deliciousness: 'I want this dragon carrot risotto to become a person...”

“And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.”

“The biggest enemy of future success is arrogance, indifference and the unwillingness to learn, unlearn, relearn, change and grow.”

“All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”

“A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.”

“There I lay, wearing dead people as armor against death.”

“Human sympathy has its limits.”

“God makes, and apparel shapes: but it's money that finishes the man.”

“Facts don't care about your feelings.”

“Accept who you are. Unless you're a serial killer.”

“Trust yourself. You will fly after this storm.”

“When the wisdom speaks, be quite and listen! When the stupidity speaks, stand up and leave!”

“I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.”

“I've decided that I'm not going to try to squeeze myself into a friendship that hurts me anymore. I'm going to let her go and just be friends with people who make me feel good about myself.”

“No. I am not a royalist. Not at all. I am definitely a republican in the British sense of the word. I just don't see the use of the monarchy though I'm fierce patriot. I'm proud proud proud...”

“Get outside. Watch the sunrise. Watch the sunset. How does that make you feel? Does it make you feel big or tiny? Because there's something good about feeling both.”

“Pain and suffering have been my most trusted textbook.”

“One of the most common and most dangerous misbeliefs is that it is impossible for someone to be stupid just because they are a doctor or a lawyer.”

“Pope John Paul II not only visited Nigeria twice but stood by the country in its fight against dictatorship and injustice.”

“Aryami Bose's home had been closed up for years, inhabited only by books and paintings, but the spectre of thousands of memories imprisoned between its walls still permeated the house.”

“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

“Bigotry is probably the thing I detest most.”

“Solemnity is proper in church, but things that are proper in church are not necessarily proper outside, and vice versa. For example, I can say a prayer while washing my teeth, but that does...”

“I don't think there is any truth. There are only points of view.”

“I love you and it's getting worse.”

“Dear me, I am happy the way you have turned out. I am happy the way you have closed in all the broken parts of your self and made them look like waves cutting across the edges of a shore tha...”

“It is beautiful to express love and even more beautiful to feel it.”