Every accepted public quote

“Entrepreneurs are like visionaries. One of the ways they run forward is by viewing the thing they're doing as something that's going to be the whole world.”

“You can do anything you want to do, if you want to do it bad enough.”

“I'm a big admirer of Walter Willett's work. I think he's done some really important research. He and I agree on most things.”

“I have written a few children's books. The first book that I wrote was for children. It was called 'The Package', and it was a mystery story in pictures. It had no words.”

“It's been constant grinding and trying to secure work that I care about, tireless auditions and meetings. I've been fortunate that a lot of cool doors have opened to me, chiefly meeting grea...”

“The real prayer is your own soul-tending. It's not the writing that needs prayer - it's you. You need to find the center that is still and strengthening. You need to deal with whatever issue...”

“A feeling is no longer the same when it comes the second time. It dies through the awareness of its return. We become tired and weary of our feelings when they come too often and last too lo...”

“The first case I sat on... was Citizens United. Talk about being thrown in. Needless to say, if I was scared before, I was terrified.”

“'The Fugitive Kind,' 'Rope,' 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' - I watched all these as a way of reminding myself that you can do a movie based on a play. You can do a movie that stays in on...”

“I think there's a right time for everything, and I'm a true believer that everything happens for a reason.”

“If you wish to love, then simply love and if you wish to truly live, then simply live. It is easy to experience true love and share this with someone. Presence is the key to love and to life...”

“I never felt that getting angry would do you any good other than hurt your own digestion, keep you from eating, which I liked to do.”

“Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel suc...”

“Life expectancy in many parts of Africa can be something around the age of thirty five to thirty eight. I mean you're very fortunate if you live to that age. In fact when I went to Uganda fo...”

“I attended schools in Seattle through the University of Washington, from which I was graduated in 1931. I spent the next year at Northwestern University.”

“I'm a compulsive buyer. Anything beautiful I see I want. That's how we got the Waldorf Astoria. I told Conrad Hilton, 'I want the Waldorf,' and he bought it. The only problem was I divorced...”

“Police in Washington D.C. are now using cameras to catch drivers who go through red lights. Many congressmen this week opposed the use of the red light cameras incorrectly assuming they were...”

“War is just a racket... I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else.”

“Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.”

“We were fortunate enough to have several good books detailing the camps and the women. Some were by the survivors. I also got to talk to some of the women who had been in the camp, survivors...”

“Only the madman is absolutely sure.”

“I always send new writers to 'Writer's Digest Books' line-up of how-to books. I read them all when I was starting out, and they were very helpful.”

“Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach.”

“'The David Letterman Show' is a show of comedy.”

“The late development of mass industrial organization in the United States has both stimulated and retarded the political development of the American working class.”

“I think that's why I was able to do well in the beginning: because it was such a foreign thing. People frame it in a negative way, like, 'For Asian-Americans there's no one out there, so tha...”

“Never eat while doing something else, because you won't get the satisfaction from your food and you'll be more likely to overeat.”

“I love 'Capote.' Huge fan of Philip Seymour Hoffman; if he's not my all-time favorite actor he's definitely in my top five. I just love him so much.”

“Well, it's because I gladly acknowledge some ideas that are part of process theology, but which I think are not tied to all the details of process thought, and are very illuminating and help...”

“Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.”

“I don't work out as much as I should, but I do believe that it's a healthy mind as well as a healthy body that keeps me fit, sound and calm.”

“This breakage within us is what makes us human and vulnerable. There is nothing more sinister than someone whose mind seems to be an absolute circle; there is a helpless coldness and a deadl...”

“At the beginning of the 60's our country called the foreign workers to come to Germany and now they live in our country. We kidded ourselves a while, we said: 'They won't stay, sometime they...”

“The lawmakers possess the authority that commands the obedience of the people.”

“We both agreed that Stalin was determined to hold out against the Germans. He told us he'd never let them get to Moscow. But if he was wrong, they'd go back to the Urals and fight. They'd ne...”

“Leroy bet me I couldn't find a pot of gold at the end, and I told him that was a stupid bet because the rainbow was enough.”

“There is nothing that makes us love a man so much as praying for him.”

“There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits.”

“What is this powerful have over my tub? Surely, I am transfixed by your firecracker charm and your suspended electrified wit.”

“It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.”

“From my early 20s on, I would waver between atheism and agnosticism, never coming close to considering that God could be real.”

“I've still not written as well as I want to. I want to write so that the reader in Des Moines, Iowa, in Kowloon, China, in Cape Town, South Africa, can say, 'You know, that's the truth. I wa...”

“I stand for anti-bigotry, anti-Semitism, and anti-racism.”

“Years ago, we all talked about recycling and not dumping things down your drain and all of that, but talking doesn't help much. Basically, it's going to have to be legislation because the im...”

“Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it.”

“I've never seen service as separate from my spiritual practice or my spiritual teaching.”

“I'm dark matter. The universe inside of me is full of something, and science can't even shine a light on it. I feel like I'm mostly made of mysteries.”

“The first mission to Mars did not expect to find craters and river valleys, and yet they did. The first mission to Jupiter didn't expect to find ocean worlds and volcano worlds, but they did...”