Every accepted public quote

“Man wants three things; life, knowledge, and love.”

“But [he] had lost god, and all his family and friends were staying behind with his imaginary friend. A silly dream goes away and takes with it your whole real life.”

“There is no rest in the heart of God until He knows that you are at resh in His grace.”

“The city which lay below was a charnel house built on multi-layered bones centuries older than those which lay beneath the cities of Hamburg or Dresden. Was this knowledge part of the myster...”

“The only rich person is a person who is rich in spirit. I have no money deposit. I have only beauty deposit.”

“When people lay around whining to their therapists and ex-wives that they're finally going to 'change' themselves, they are promising something imaginary and made up.”

“I think Halle Berry is one of the most beautiful women on the planet.”

“No one wants to fail. So most of us don't even try. Sad. We don't even take that first step to improve our health or to deepen our working relationships or to realize a dream.”

“All of sudden, this shooting star went by, and all I could think was that they were listening to us somehow.”

“I actually find a lot of parallels in jazz and cartooning.”

“I'd say many features of string theory don't mesh with what we observe in everyday life.”

“If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize.”

“But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.”

“Inside each of us resides the truth, I began, the absolute truth. But sometimes the truth is hidden in a hall of mirrors. Sometimes we believe we are viewing the real thing, when in fact we...”

“Keep your thoughts right, for as you think, so are you. Therefore, think only those things that will make the world better, and you unashamed.”

“All I'm going to tell you is investigations, whether it be this and others, where you have partial facts, analysts, agents are always trying to interpret what those facts mean, extrapolate f...”

“I do believe it is true that the people of India regard the prime minister as the most important political leader.”

“I often go into the lions' den and engage with those I know oppose my views, because I want to understand what other people think.”

“Humor is the most precious gift I can give to my reader, a reminder that the world is not such a terribly serious place. There is more than video games and drugs and nuclear threats; there i...”

“Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.”

“It is the pride of my heart to have been one of the earliest adopted sons of America.”

“The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.”

“Ringo Starr may not have much of a voice, but when he sang a song on a Beatle album, it had its own special charm.”

“Worse than useless, I worry e-petitions are detrimental, with their sense of catharsis and mini-activism. Channelling away agitation, giving us the opportunity to show all our Facebook frien...”

“It never ceased to amaze me how she just had the facts always, in her head. It occured to me that if, or when, she died, a whole load of facts, a body of knowledge, might disappear without a...”

“Beginning in 1986, a series of field experiments were designed to test the various hypotheses which had been put forth to explain the Antarctic ozone hole.”

“We see that in the organic world, to the same degree that reflection gets darker and weaker, grace grows ever more radiant and dominant. But just as two lines intersect on one side of a poin...”

“I'm not against anybody. I'm really not. I'm not a hater. I'm not homophobic. I honestly don't care what people do personally in their individual lives.”

“When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing but misery and filth.”

“There's a very real possibility in this industry of going out and leading your life and then going home and being a voyeur of your own life. You can literally go watch yourself - where you w...”

“Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.”

“You need propellants to accelerate toward Mars, then to decelerate at Mars, again to re-accelerate from Mars to Earth, and finally to decelerate back at Earth. Accordingly, the mass of these...”

“That's who Jesus Christ is. He became the final Priest and the final Sacrifice. Sinless, he did not offer sacrifices for himself. Immortal, he never has to be replaced. Human, he could bear...”

“To be a spiritual teacher is the call of compassion.”

“With Internet technology you can capture a photo, a quote, or an article, store it locally and upload it into the Net more than once, if you wish, to multiple sites. Can you imagine then for...”

“If you don't believe this election is important, if you think you can sit it out, take a moment to think about the Supreme Court justices that Donald Trump would nominate and what that would...”

“We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love.”

“From its beginning, fan fiction has been written mostly by women. Originally, this was because of a dearth of interesting female characters in conventional sci-fi.”

“Whatever I have not yet learned to tolerate in myself inevitably will appear in my children. In this way, they, like Julia, guide me to a new level of self-awareness and everyone benefits.”

“Clearly, Simon Baz brings such a different viewpoint to 'Green Lantern.' The very nature of the corps concept of overcoming fear, I felt Simon was a great character to explore, while getting...”

“Hyperbole is something I'd better avoid.”

“I have every right to know how my taxes are spent, how every single penny of it is spent. I have the right to know that.”

“Kidnapping is always a threat in this life of reporting on men hurting one another because of religion and politics.”

“Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”

“I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, such feebleness of thought.”

“It's a job. I entertain my readers. I get up in the morning, and I start typing.”

“Recently I was directing an episode of 'Glee' and I lost my cell phone - and I didn't have time to buy a new one for three weeks. Well, the first few days I was anxious as hell, suffered the...”

“I can still remember my mum (a voracious, if not discriminating, reader - I have seen everything from the sublime to the ridiculous by her bed, from Ian Rankin and Elmore Leonard to Barbara...”