Every accepted public quote

“I feel like, growing up, I haven't had a lot of room for error - I don't have room to make mistakes. You need to make mistakes to grow and learn, but I'm just a little different because the...”

“The core of my career is my teaching and my writing.”

“You obviously don't really forget how to play the old songs; you just don't have to spend so much time convincing yourself that you remember them. Way less mental energy is spent swimming ar...”

“Whereas what man can learn about the world through his senses and through the intellect which relies upon sense-observation may be called 'anthropology,' what the spiritual man within us can...”

“The thing that really gets me about the game is I've never played two rounds that were anywhere close to being the same - ever. Even with the same golf course and setup, nothing is ever the...”

“My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.”

“The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves; most things, in fact, are better in the morning.”

“We know so little about one another. We embrace a shadow and love a dream.”

“Beetles and butterflies are sometimes restricted to small areas. Each mountain in a range, and even the different zones of a mountain, may have its own peculiar species. But the house-fly se...”

“I am writing to all the churches to let it be known that I will gladly die for God if only you do not stand in my way... Let me be food for the wild beasts, for they are my way to God.”

“Minnesotans lost their jobs because the credit rating agencies didn't do the only job they're supposed to have, the only job they had, which is to give accurate, objective ratings to financi...”

“I'd love to travel to the Holy Land.”

“I don't drink coffee. Weird, I know. But I try to stay away from caffeine. That said, we are investors in Blue Bottle, which is delicious!”

“The formal scientific definition of theory is quite different from the everyday meaning of the word. It refers to a comprehensive explanation of some aspect of nature that is supported by a...”

“So, have a little fun. Soon enough you'll be dead and burning in Hell with the rest of your family.”

“There's always going to be someone as funny as you or funnier.”

“I think the voice does that perfectly adequately without being imitated by other instruments.”

“Love is illogical. You fall into it like a manhole. Then you're just stuck. You die in love more than you live in love.”

“In general, the threshold for a woman becoming worried at how she's coming off in terms of asserting her power, that threshold is continually lower than it is for men.”

“I think shareholders are the great evil of this modern world.”

“Most of you have probably noticed that most of the world is already at war, has been for a very long time, and there does not seem to be an end in sight or any plans for an end. But some peo...”

“I realized that there are many people who are very good students, but they think of themselves as bad students. At the end of the day, what they are really missing is way to understand where...”

“It is deeply shocking and incomprehensible to me that despite volumes of documentation and living witnesses who can attest to the horrors of the Holocaust, there are still those who would de...”

“It's nearly impossible to enforce actual consequences in video games at the moment, but at a table, sitting face-to-face across a tabletop game, or even playing at a LAN party, sportsmanship...”

“The evolution of social media into a robust mechanism for social transformation is already visible. Despite many adamant critics who insist that tools like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are...”

“I don't let a lot of reporters meet my children.”

“I only speak truth as everything else is a waste of time”

“Yes. And when a rake finally falls, he falls forever.”

“I've played more park games than NBA games, and I had a 10-year NBA career.”

“Most friendships are a sort of frozen and undeveloping semi-hostility.”

“I'm not as concerned about me. What's happened to me has been great. I got five great kids. Seventeen grandchildren.”

“Negative feedback effected amplifier performance significantly.”

“The basic difference between being assertive and being aggressive is how our words and behavior affect the rights and well-being of others.”

“There are books showing men how to succeed in everything; they are written by men who cannot even succeed in writing books.”

“Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.”

“To young people born under the weird planet of the SAT, intelligence was equated with agility, with raw acuity. It produced a certain sort of person of which I was a typical specimen: the me...”

“If you repress rather than unlock the potential of large groups of Americans, what's that going to do to our economy? It's going to contract, not expand.”

“I'm trying to work out if people need to start out at one hundred percent or if they can start at, I don't know, seventy, and work their way up.”

“Leaders are not dogmatic. They are principled and know that change is never easy, but when it's necessary, they must lead.”

“Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.”

“I love watching the National Geographic channel. That show 'Taboo'? I love it!”

“Well, the senators I've enjoyed working with the most would be Ted Kennedy and Kent Conrad, because they were both either chairman or ranking member of the committee I was chairman or rankin...”

“Calabi-Yau manifolds, like math itself, are developing stories on a road that undoubtedly holds many twists and turns. It means there's always more to be learned, always more to be done. And...”

“Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.”

“I showed up in October 1946, part of an early surge that would become a great nationwide baby boom. My sister Kathy was born a year later.”

“I cannot pick one single forest to be a favourite, but I am in love with the Indian jungles - be it Madhumalai and Kabini in South India or Tadoba and Pench National Park in Maharashtra. The...”

“The happiness of love is in action; its test is what one is willing to do for others.”

“In radio, they say, nothing happens until the announcer says it happens.”