Every accepted public quote

“I had a very distant relationship with my father. It was always just me and my mother. It was a shattering blow when she died. I was 16.”

“I've never, ever tasted beer.”

“We have to have a conversation where we bring in all the stakeholders and say, 'What is the vision of the Democratic Party?'”

“Oh, sweetie, I'm sorry, you can't have a baby brother, because that would mean that Daddy had sex, and that's never going to happen again.”

“I will not concede for a moment that old privileges should not dwindle. They cannot dwindle fast enough.”

“I have no talent. I have nothing to offer.”

“You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.”

“He was the editor of our paper. He created the publishing house in Hebrew. He was - I wouldn't say the 'guru' - but really he was our teacher and a most respected man. I wrote for the paper...”

“My mother was a modern woman with a limited interest in religion. When the sun set and the fast of the Day of Atonement ended, she shot from the synagogue like a rocket to dance the Charlest...”

“The computer is a moron.”

“New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.”

“Speaking the truth is the main attribute of a pure hearted person.”

“My therapy has come from paying attention to my life.”

“The Framers of the Constitution knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny.”

“Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.”

“I'm not a girl racer, I save my speed for the race track.”

“The Mexicans bowed down when we talked about removing their foreign aid, and then they began cooperating with our country.”

“I'm happy that people think of me as the greatest tap-dancer that ever lived. But it's just a rumor. Because the greatest dancer that ever lived knows everything, and I don't. I'm still lear...”

“I enjoyed dressing in Indian clothes. I loved those long, single-piece garments that come down to the knees and the white pyjamas you wear underneath.”

“Our world is utterly saturated with fear. We fear being attacked by religious extremists, both foreign and domestic. We fear the loss of political rights, a loss of privacy, or a loss of fre...”

“Over the next decade, cities and states across America will be compelled to tighten their belts as the really big bills - the pension bills they cannot afford - come due. They'll have to go...”

“There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison”

“Comedy, surprisingly for a form that intends to bring joy and joviality, is always upsetting people. Jokes rely on broad strokes, stereotypes, caricatures, exaggerations and simplifications.”

“I've had great fans, and they've been so loyal over the years.”

“Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman's heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned.”

“Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.”

“Bullfights have so much color. Not just the matador but also the bull, the arena, and the public. It's all very festive.”

“I had always been interested in race and racial justice, but mostly it was with my nose pressed up against the glass, looking at the South from a long way away.”

“All of my childhood, we were on welfare. My mom received Aid for Families with Dependent Children - welfare. Without that, we wouldn't have had subsidized housing. Most of my childhood, we h...”

“Kaepernick's protest has been very successful. I really appreciate the fact that he's been giving away money to organisations; he pledged to give away a million dollars, and he's been doing...”

“Pure happiness and peace are at their peak when your body is in harmony with itself.”

“I always thought it was strange when these artists like Kurt Cobain or whoever would get really famous and say, 'I don't understand why this is happening to me.' There is a mathematical form...”

“The book of the Psalms, which is the primary devotional literature of the whole Bible, is full of complaints.”

“Challenges of historic import threaten America's future. Action on the deficit, economy, energy, health care and much more is imperative, yet our legislative institutions fail to act. Congre...”

“Ethereum exists because it enables developers to write smart contracts better than Bitcoin in the near-term. Zcash will exist because it will attempt to do privacy better than Bitcoin in the...”

“In my first 15 or 20 years of authorship, I was almost never asked to give a speech or an interview. The written work was supposed to speak for itself, and to sell itself, sometimes even wit...”

“The hardest part of living without social media was remembering that my little life was enough, so I could just stay there and live it without asking for anyone else's permission or validati...”

“What I said was that in a democratic society, people must be permitted to make their choices and that the choices of women should not be subordinate to the choices of men, otherwise women ar...”

“Love and work are to people what water and sunshine are to plants.”

“I had a lot of self-doubt when I started. And I still do. But I had a lot of the wrong kind of self-doubt when I first started making music and first started to tour. I think I was a little...”

“Though I play at the edges of knowing, truly I know our part is not knowing, but looking, and touching, and loving”

“I've always had a love affair with Boston.”

“Am I ever gonna grow thick skin? No.”

“To live entirely without a goal! I have glimpsed this state, and have often attained it, without managing to remain there: I am too weak for such happiness.”

“The sacred wandering cannot be rushed. It is a life transition. It requires patience and endurance. There are valuable lessons to be learned.”

“The Supreme Court has made it nearly impossible to prove race discrimination in the criminal justice system.”

“The Room I wrote in 1957, and I was really gratified to find that it stood up. I didn't have to change a word.”

“Love heals both heart and soul.”