Every accepted public quote

“Discontent is the first step in progress. No one knows what is in him till he tries, and many would never try if they were not forced to.”

“Face the truth or the truth will face you!”

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on.”

“You have to prove that the Freberg way will sell their product better than if they just did straight advertising. Whenever I give a lecture or seminar, that's what I try to get across to peo...”

“As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.”

“Political correctness kills discussion.”

“I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.”

“No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.”

“I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.”

“There is no dark side of the moon really. As a matter of fact it's all dark.”

“One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.”

“All men by nature desire to know.”

“It's very interesting, the joke comes first and then the wording comes within five seconds, maybe ten seconds. My thing is to get the joke across in as few words as possible. However, someti...”

“I'm opposed to fundamentalism in any form.”

“Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.”

“Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us, our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life.”

“We rarely climb to the highest level of our expectations, because the ascension is limited by wisdom and knowledge.”

“I was never offended that people underestimated me because of my appearance or that they thought I was pretty and discouraged me from fighting because they didn't want me to risk hurting my...”

“I'd kiss a frog even if there was no promise of a Prince Charming popping out of it. I love frogs.”

“But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers...”

“On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death. ... Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous ins...”

“I came from a real tough neighborhood. Once a guy pulled a knife on me. I knew he wasn't a professional, the knife had butter on it.”

“Before you find your soul mate, you must first discover your soul.”

“They may try to stop you by their words and deeds, but like air you will rise above it all. You are unstoppable”

“While everyone else is thinking about economics and politics, executive salaries and the future of the euro, do the opposite, even if it's hard. Invest in the spirit.”

“At 13, I loved how so many of my peers sang and played acoustic guitar, so I started recording videos with covers of famous songs and posting them online.”

“Of all the writers I have read, Vladimir Nabokov has made the biggest impression on me because he, despite living through the 1917 February Revolution, forced exile amidst the anti-Semitism...”

“A wise man shall never be conquered by a deceitful false prophet; but fools and simple minds shall revere the prophet as they would a deity.”

“Food is meant to be eaten with the senses, and admired by the palette.”

“One always has hope for human nature”

“That sometimes human beings have to just sit in one place and, like, hurt. That you will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do. Th...”

“Mother Nature doesn't care if you're having fun.”

“One swing set, well worn but structurally sound, seeks new home ... With this swing set, your child(ren) will be introduced to the ups and downs of human life gently and safely, and may also...”

“I think people respond to dystopian stories because they're ways of acting out anxieties that we have and fears that we have about the future. So much media's coming at you over the Internet...”

“There's a personality trait known as agreeableness. Agreeable people are compassionate and polite. And agreeable people get paid less than disagreeable people for the same job. Women are mor...”

“How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?”

“Kitty's always saying how origin stories are important. At college, when people ask us how we met, how will we answer them? The short story is, we grew up together. But that's more Josh's an...”

“We can't command our love, but we can our actions.”

“There is real power in seeing yourself as a hero. Because then you believe that you can do anything.”

“Remember me when I am dead and simplify me when I'm dead.”

“In the moment before I crossed over, I knew that the priests and magicians of Egypt were fools and charlatans for promising to prolong the beauties of life beyond the world we are give. Deat...”

“Never let the routine of your life stamp out the miracle of your life. You are unrepeatable. You are needed. You are infinite.”

“When I was a youngster I lived with different families. I nearly always felt closer to the man of the house. Maybe because I always dreamed of having a father of my own.”

“I was the only person I'd ever met who had a record contract. None of the E Street Band, as far as I know, had been on an airplane until Columbia sent us to Los Angeles.”

“We have artists with no scientific knowledge and scientists with no artistic knowledge and both with no spiritual sense of gravity at all, and the result is not just bad, it is ghastly.”

“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”

“You can't buy the love you want, you can't sell your love. Love is given by those who deserves it.”

“I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.”