Every accepted public quote

“I lost three times in my career. Losing to Holmes I could deal with, because I lost to a true champion.”

“So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be dr...”

“I have to watch out for being lazy.”

“Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.”

“I'm a huge fan of 'The Exorcist.'”

“We cannot expect to keep our nation's secrets secure - or provide meaningful oversight for our intelligence agencies - if proper classification of our country's secrets is as likely as a coi...”

“What's problematic about playing stadiums and driving around in private jets and drinking champagne at 8 o'clock in the morning? What's wrong with that? I haven't got a problem with that. I...”

“Sometimes in T20, you need to bowl only one over, and once the captain has given you that one over, irrespective of whether it is good or bad, that one over is out of the equation. That actu...”

“Well, in brief, I was discovered by a lady called Beth Boldt. She had also been a model. She used to take pictures of the girls she found, and she took a picture of me one day in my school u...”

“With social media, one can target the audience and reach out to the segment in a very precise, cost-effective manner.”

“The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.”

“One's homesickness for Heaven finds at least an inn there; and it's an inn on the right road.”

“There must be some one quality without which a work of art cannot exist; possessing which, in the least degree, no work is altogether worthless.”

“It is time to step up. It is time to rise up and claim our power, our self-worth, to find our true inner strength and to reclaim it. Step into it. Use it. We have the unlimited strength with...”

“What I see in the Bible, especially in the book of Psalms, which is a book of gratitude for the created world, is a recognition that all good things on Earth are God's, every good gift is fr...”

“A wiser rule would be to make up your mind soberly what you want, peace or war, and then to get ready for what you want; for what we prepare for is what we shall get.”

“There have always been hermits: people who want to get away from other humans. Literally, some of the first extant books and poems found in Mesopotamia and China mention people living alone...”

“Time keeps moving forward, no matter what you're feeling.”

“The future will be what it will, and fretting about it will only make your fears more likely to come true.”

“People die millionaires. All your life, you're gonna stress money?”

“I wasn't delusional at all when I signed on to do 'Furious 7,' that it wasn't my creation. It's the seventh movie in a series, for goodness sake!”

“Words are less needful to sorrow than to joy.”

“So much value has been lost in the housing market that people are now buying. If there's any activity in the housing market, it's because values have plummeted to such depths that the 47% ca...”

“I remember one time I wrote something very, very critical about Wilt Chamberlain. The next time I saw him - and Wilt was not a man, as huge as he was - he was not a man of confrontation. And...”

“Politics is in a crisis because it's separated from our deep humanity.”

“In January 1776, Thomas Paine issued 'Common Sense,' advocating independence from Great Britain.”

“Tragedy had its compensations. Once the worst misfortune occurred, one never worried about the minor ones.”

“Internet entrepreneurs are using technology at every level of their company - from a one-person agency to a small firm, the newest technological advances are interwoven throughout every aspe...”

“We should honor - not attack - those who have stood up for equality and other cherished American values.”

“I do love my full English breakfast, but not every day. What I can't do without first thing in the morning, though, is my Danish pastry or a croissant - anything with a laminated dough, enri...”

“I stopped watching television like a fiend once I got into college.”

“Everybody in America started to define themselves by all these things they had around them. And all of a sudden it came tumbling down. So the old American dream has died, and that is a good...”

“How people interpret my degrees of sexiness is out of my hands.”

“Writing is like anything else - the more you do it, the better you get at it, the easier it comes, and the less concerned you'll be about what's going to happen to it, where it's going, what...”

“I'm a Pisces - I can't rest if you aren't resting well.”

“The editor of a newspaper, who is an old friend, asked me to write a column. According to her, I cracked lame jokes all the time and read voraciously.”

“A good mother remembers to serve fruit at breakfast, is always cheerful and never yells, manages not to project her own neuroses and inadequacies onto her children, is an active and beloved...”

“Fashion is really a place where every other industry connects, whether it's music or acting. At the end of the day, everyone is going to walk the red carpet and be interested in the fashion...”

“Food is not a means toward resolution. It can't cure heartbreak or solve untenable dilemmas.”

“Anything that has a relationship with pleasure, we reject it. Eating, they talk about cholesterol; making love, they talk about AIDS; you talk about smoking, they talk about cancer. It's a v...”

“Success in Silicon Valley, most would agree, is more merit-driven than almost any other place in the world. It doesn't matter how old you are, what sex you are, what politics you support or...”

“No one ever complains about a speech being too short!”

“By combining elements such as hypnosis, magic, neurolinguistic programming and psychology, I can make it appear that I can hack into people's brains.”

“Six months away from family and friends is a long time. Emotionally, you go through some ups and downs. Life changes on the ground, and you have to ready for that. Life changes for you up he...”

“1. A time machine on the shoulders of memories, two advisers: on the right shoulder there is good future, in the left past that is evil, two open rays of time in which consciousness travels....”

“I think I had come from a consumer world for a long time and America and eyeballs were moving to social media in huge numbers, especially on mobile phones and devices. And when Donald Trump...”

“Behavior used to be reinforced by great deprivation; if people weren't hungry, they wouldn't work. Now we are committed to feeding people whether they work or not. Nor is money as great a re...”

“Hope is much more than wishful thinking. Hope is a way of moving through the world.”