Every accepted public quote

“Love is beautiful and blind and messy and wrapped up in stardust. (Excerpted from Confession of the moon, chapter Pain)”

“All men ought to think of Christ, because of what Christ will yet do to all men. He shall come again one day to this earth with power and glory, and raise the dead from their graves. All sha...”

“We're in a long line of English people pretending to be Americans and not being as good as Americans.”

“When you ask someone for their vote, you are asking them to place their confidence in you as the steward of the community, so it was humbling that people placed their faith and trust in me.”

“Burt Reynolds once asked me out. I was in his room.”

“What part of 9/11 is big? If the future continues to reinterpret the past, it could be argued that 9/11 provides irrefutable proof that unless there is some other way that we learn to deal w...”

“Religious-liberty protections are one way of achieving civil peace even amid disagreement. The United States is a pluralistic society. To protect that pluralism and the rights of all America...”

“I was glad that our venerable, almost formless religions, drained of all intransigence and purged of savage rites, linked us mysteriously to the most ancient secrets of man and of earth, not...”

“I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.”

“Sensuality is instrumental to developing the confidence for personal and professional success.”

“I wouldn't call myself an actress, but I at the same time, if there is an opportunity... I believe in taking chances and living your life.”

“A system is corrupt when it is strictly profit-driven, not driven to serve the best interests of its people.”

“We know gang members are pouring across the border and filling up our prisons. We have a huge drug problem in this country now in places that never had an opiate problem. Why is that? Becaus...”

“Standing athwart ineffective, feel-good legislation shouting, 'Stop!' is seen as a betrayal of those struggling to get their footing on the lowest rung of the economic ladder. Yet raising th...”

“I was raised in the '50s. I was taught by my father that how I looked was all that mattered, frankly.”

“When I was a boxer, I wanted to be champion of the world, not the richest man in the world.”

“Accepting your own uniqueness invites others to respect you without apologizing for who you are.”

“My favorite thing about touring is the new towns and new faces every day.”

“When Ronald Reagan was elected president for his first term in 1980, he received strong support from the so-called Sagebrush Rebels. The Rebels wanted lands owned by the federal government t...”

“If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.”

“It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.”

“Some actors don't mind it. Those who are pretty. They think it's nice to be looked at because they are nice to look at. I appreciate that. I'm very happy to salute that aspiration. But I don...”

“Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.”

“Reason may be employed to support faith as well as to destroy it.”

“I am proud to be called the Queen of Mean, and I never mince my words - especially when it comes to fat people.”

“I have a journal of everything I've ever climbed since 2005. For the entry about free soloing Half Dome, I put a frowny face and added some little notes about what I should have done better,...”

“Talk is over-rated as a means of settling disputes.”

“I mean, I didn't ever watch 'Gilligan's Island' and think, 'Those people are actors.' I lived in West Virginia. Hollywood just felt like this total other universe.”

“I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners.”

“I try to choose the songs that really are basically coming from my heart. I think that through the songs that I select, people know what's going on in my life.”

“I don't like courting controversy because I don't like people not liking me.”

“In doubt, fear is the worst of prophets.”

“In golf, no one learns to hit a draw, a fade, or a cut shot until they've been taught how to hit the ball straight. Similarly, novice poker players need to learn how to 'hit it straight' bef...”

“I'm certainly not a supermodel.”

“I want to know where is that committee in Switzerland that sits to decide what is in and what is out. I don't listen to the formula makers. I think maybe I have a selective hearing disorder.”

“White consciousness is deeply anti-black, and that's for progressives and conservatives.”

“You don't have to watch 'Gossip Girl' to have an attitude.”

“Low interest rates wipe out savers and devastate middle-class workers. The banksters have orchestrated this wealth transference of trillions, from the poor to the very wealthy. At the expens...”

“Moscow is a big city. It's all nerves - something's always happening somewhere. D.C. is a quiet, calm family town.”

“In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.”

“Ministers have received their wages, and some have their minds too much on their wages. They labor for wages, and lose sight of the sacredness and importance of the work.”

“Beware all enterprises that require new clothes.”

“People don't wish to watch masala films of the '50s any more. Audiences do not want loud films at all. They are watching Netflix and Amazon that have fresh ideas.”

“Do not, under any circumstances, belittle a work of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life; what we search for in fiction is not so much reality but the epiphany of tru...”

“The native music of North America, the original-roots music of this country, is also the underworld music of this country.”

“If you think of any past artist, there was something that they looked at that inspired them to make their most famous pieces, whether it be the 'Mona Lisa' or 'Venus Rising.'”

“People like me who are here in flyover country, we're tired of East Coast moderates.”

“My early years were hardly a model of focus, discipline, and direction. No one who met me as a teenager could have imagined my going into research and making important discoveries. No one co...”