Every accepted public quote

“We are complete in ourselves. But sometimes it takes a life time for us to understand this. For every doubt that breeds in our own mind, we have a confident thought to balance it! There is l...”

“Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.”

“A person with a loving heart rarely fails; a person with a hateful heart rarely succeeds.”

“The moment you say, 'Please, give me a reason for this', then you are being impossible and temperamental.”

“The greenhouse effect of carbon-dioxide emissions does produce gentle warming if it is not counteracted by unpredictable natural phenomena, but it cannot be measured directly against the vol...”

“A secret is not something unrevealed, but something told privately, in a whisper.”

“When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.”

“I'm thankful I grew up the way I did. It made me a hard worker and insightful to other people's lives.”

“Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.”

“I'm the priest who has been mistaken for an ATM machine.”

“And the birds sang their songs of love. And the flowers serenaded with their sublime fragrances. And the whole world fell in love in spring!”

“A paparazzo once jumped out of a car and started running backward with me. I slowed down out of courtesy because she started drifting into the street. I reached out my hand and moved her bac...”

“The extra curricular activity in which I was most engaged - debating - helped shape my interests in public policy.”

“Probably some of the most miserable years of my life were grappling with some definition of what success was.”

“I went through a phase where I watched 'Jurassic Park' every day for about 13 or 14 days after school when I was young.”

“Fill your heart with love, your soul with kindness, and let your heart flow with mighty streams.”

“IndieBio's capital, facilities and deep mentoring by a network of biotech specific experts have the potential to spawn the Google's, Facebook's and Instagram's of biology.”

“When you get older, your health becomes important to you, things start breaking down, you've always got a different ache or pain.”

“God gave man work, not to burden him, but to bless him, and useful work, willingly, cheerfully, effectively done, has always been the finest expression of the human spirit.”

“My parents were reasonably affluent in Kabul. In the States, we were on welfare. My mom became a waitress, and my dad became a driving instructor. That part of the American immigrant experie...”

“Why should blacks feel elated about seeing men walk on the moon when millions of poor blacks and whites don't have enough money to buy food to eat on earth?”

“I try to work out daily in the morning hours. This drives up energy levels dramatically. You'll feel more inspired. And you'll need less sleep.”

“If I'm in the country, my big idea is to do nothing. It means talking, it means cooking with the leftovers in the fridge - l'art d'accommoder les restes - it means gardening.”

“Ice Cube is doing so great. He went from being this hardcore gangster rapper to this actor now. He's doing children's movies and all this stuff - he's rocking it.”

“Everyone thinks you have to grow up to know who you are, but kids already know who we are. The world just beats it out of us.”

“Murder is born of love, and love attains the greatest intensity in murder.”

“I am very observant of people's character.”

“Wrestling and boxing is like Ping-Pong and rugby. There's no connection.”

“There's always been a lot of information about your activities. Every phone number you dial, every credit-card charge you make. It's long since passed that a typical person doesn't leave foo...”

“I always want to be a messenger, a person that, you know, that's not afraid to pass on wisdom.”

“I'm overcritical, insensitive, and pushy when it comes to me. With everybody else, I'm a great listener, and all I want is for them to be happy.”

“If you were mine, I'd never leave you, Prudence. I couldn't.”

“To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on him...”

“The early bird may get the worm, but its the second mouse that gets the cheese.”

“The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution - this everlasting liv...”

“Reason to live, they repeat like a pop song, The bones of a beloved emperor, and I, the motionless chariot trying to drag them home with forced hope.”

“No person has the right to rain on your dreams.”

“Crabbed age and youth cannot live together; Youth is full of pleasure, age is full of care; Youth like summer morn, age like winter weather; Youth like summer brave, age like winter bare. Yo...”

“In the faces of men and women I see God.”

“Office holders are a self-selected group; you don't get elected if you don't put your name on the ballot. There are many people who would do a great job, but who would never think to run. Fi...”

“But as for activism, my parents did what they could, given the constraints, but were never involved in the causes I think of when I think of activists.”

“If someone does not consider those around them to be valuable and hold only themselves in high regard, they too have a very bad self-esteem.”

“When I'm getting to know someone, I look for someone who has passions that I respect, like his career. Someone who loves what he does is really attractive.”

“Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.”

“Men lose all the material things they leave behind them in this world, but they carry with them the reward of their charity and the alms they give. For these, they will receive from the Lord...”

“Whether there are innately female leadership styles ... is not really the right question. It is more important to ask why there has been so little attention paid to women leaders over the ye...”

“the world is not a pleasant place to be without someone to hold and be held by.”

“When you're around me, you're going to get glitter on you.”