Every accepted public quote

“The truth is somewhere in the middle of each thing which you read... in it's in the middle... to find it... you need time... but time in it's the essence, right now!”

“I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.”

“I became the toast of London. A lot of people I met came from these really decadent families where the married men were gay and no one thought anything about it.”

“If in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundations of knowledge in mathematics...”

“How can you tell somebody who is pursuing happiness that they're somehow not American when that was the very first promise that America made?”

“I know that some girls look up to me for certain things, like dyslexia, and that way I know that they like me for me, so it adds no pressure.”

“On April 14, 1986, when the Reagan administration launched an airstrike on Libya in clear violation of international law, Kissinger did the rounds on news shows to justify the bombing. The d...”

“I'm looking forward to playing the meatier roles you get in your 30s. The early 20s can be a hard time for an actress - it's always bombshell or romantic lead. The good stuff you can really...”

“I have an unremovable stain of self-confidence.”

“You lose yourself, Erica, because with the right person, who you become together is something so much greater, more than you could even realize right now.”

“The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, t...”

“The idea of free software is that users of computing deserve freedom. They deserve in particular to have control over their computing. And proprietary software does not allow users to have c...”

“My life will be the best illustration of all my work.”

“Everything I am I owe to my faith and secondly to parents who were old school.”

“I would work until I got stuck, and I would put it down and pick up something else. I might be able to take a 20-minute nap and get to work again. That way, I was able to work about 10 hours...”

“I don't think there are really enough meetings in Britain for our athletes to compete properly, and because of this a lot of the talent we have has been stunted.”

“The early study of Euclid made me a hater of geometry.”

“Being on tour is like being in limbo. It's like going from nowhere to nowhere.”

“The thing that I really look for in people is enthusiasm and excitement and, not to sound really sappy, that fire in their eyes.”

“I feel a deep sense of responsibility to share everything that we've learned from TOMS, so that others can learn from both our mistakes and the counterintuitive principles that have guided o...”

“I'm extremely blessed to have the extraordinary mother that I have, and I don't mean Diana Ross, I mean the mother. My mom paved a road that didn't exist, as did Oprah.”

“Use visual cues to prompt yourself to put away more. A photograph of the beach house where you and your husband can envision spending your retirement will remind you to bump up the contribut...”

“Any finish at Le Mans is great but every time I go to Le Mans my mission is to win.”

“The voiceless and most defenseless ones are the animals, so most of my attention goes to them.”

“At the end of the day, if I can say I had fun, it was a good day.”

“I envied kids who played soccer and football, but that was not my gig.”

“Never forget that the most political thing you can ever do is follow your heart.”

“The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending; and to have the two as close together as possible.”

“Then I realized my early work did have something special that audiences adored apart from what I humbly thought about them. They occupy a distinguished niche in Italian film history and prob...”

“I'm very sensitive to the English language. I studied the dictionary obsessively when I was a kid and collect old dictionaries. Words, I think, are very powerful and they convey an intention...”

“You have to be serious-minded in business, but not take yourself seriously.”

“Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.”

“God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please-you can never have both.”

“He ate and drank the precious words, His spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, Nor that his frame was dust. He danced along the dingy days, And this bequest of wings Was but...”

“You are the one you have been waiting for.”

“We look to our leaders once we elect them to either lead us in the right direction or at least not crush us.”

“How much the sea became very small, when the first ship sailed.”

“I believe how a character eventually turns out is completely attributable to an actor. Even with a meaty role, if I am enacting it as an accessory, I will look like an accessory.”

“You have more real truth to draw from if you are playing evil. We see so much of it around us in our culture, and we also have so much of it in our nature, which we are always warring agains...”

“There isn't a day that goes by that I don't think about the paratroopers I served with who made the ultimate sacrifice for our freedoms.”

“Creative processes are always very opaque. Afterwards, you tend to pretend that everything was planned and it was a strategy, but it was not like that at all.”

“The first thing I did after getting a Master's degree - and the Air Force was very kind; they let me stay on at school to get a Master's - I went to Denver for the Armed Forces Air Intellige...”

“When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.”

“Spacewalking trumps everything. Viscerally, it is a phenomenal place to be; to be able to glance right and see the world, glance left and see the universe, and realise for a moment that you'...”

“I went on to Cincinnati. I had got a taste of the big cities and them bright lights. I stayed there until I was about 18 or 19 and then I went on to Detroit.”

“Often, especially young artists, you feel like you should be doing something. And I think that can be very destructive because creativity is about connecting with the stuff that's deep insid...”

“I remember driving home one evening while they were reviewing the papers on the radio. One of the articles was about me separating from my wife. It's a weird thing to listen to a news report...”

“I woke up this morning, and I still don't believe I won the Daytona 500.”