Every accepted public quote

“I have realized that whatever good comes to me, comes from God, whatever bad comes to me, God has allowed it, and I choose to be thankful for both.”

“One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.”

“I'm a big fan of Rand Paul; he and I are good friends. I don't agree with him on foreign policy.”

“Like most of the world's population I'm into coffee, but in a properly big and important way. My perfect weekend would start with a pint of coffee.”

“I went through a few phases of finding myself: I dabbled in musical theater, chess club, dance troupe, splatter-painting, school mascot (go Wildcats), babysitter, photojournalist, drill team...”

“I just love stories, and I love movies, learning and seeing the world. Growing up in Iowa, it was like, you wanna see the world? Movies can help you do that.”

“TV family sitcoms have always been about fathers who know best and mothers who are so enchanted with everything they do. I wanted to be the first mom to be a mom on TV. I wanted to sent out...”

“I think I'm becoming a psychologist in explaining the Republican Party. It's the only way you can explain 'em. It's psychological.”

“It's good that we have good managers like Jose Mourinho and Arsene Wenger in this countr,y but I think we should be trying to send out some of our managers to other countries to help not jus...”

“Even before I knew I was gay, I knew I didn't want to have a child. I knew I didn't want to have one. I never want to have to release it from me. Listen, I love babies. I love children. And...”

“I have my own definition of minimalism, which is that which is created with a minimum of means.”

“We knew the difference between that which cannot be expressed and that which must. We understood that while words are a path taking us only so far, they are a requisite to the journey. They...”

“It's not a born-again thing; it was a peaceful, really, really cool moment where I just felt that I was no longer the dad anymore. I actually had become a son, and it makes things much easie...”

“Every time I went on the radio, I would take the crummiest radio station, the station that was like a toilet bowl. I would go on there and build up the ratings, so you couldn't do any worse.”

“If I were to do a foundation, it would be to promote solar energy. And I'm worried about drilling for oil. I think it is harming the earth, 'cos it drains the layer of oil under the surface,...”

“'Heartless' is something Ann and I wrote together.”

“All that prosthetic makeup drains you. By the time it's lunch, you're done.”

“In '68 I was 13 years old, so I was a child, but I felt a lot of excitement in listening to things, looking at the pop art coming over from America. My father was an art collector, and he wa...”

“I was not a political animal; I could not toady up to the committee men, pour drinks down their necks at the bar, and make them feel important. I was too focused on the cricket.”

“Communicating with teenage girls is easy unless you're an adult, and then it's like having someone take a pair of pliers and, one-by-one, yank off your fingernails through your ears.”

“I mean, that's another big surprise of the show, is that I see sixteen year old people who recognize me and they're honest, for-real fans of the show. And it goes down to nine months. I mean...”

“Fear is contagious, and those who wish America to become a faith-based society are doing their best to spread it.”

“I have known Harold Ford Jr. since before he was born, in that his father was my driver in the 1966 governor's race, and has remained a friend of mine all these years.”

“If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.”

“By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.”

“I am guaranteeing you that if you see my byline on a story, it's going to be the cleanest story you've ever read.”

“I love those Keith Richards solo records, but it's not the Rolling Stones.”

“Apart from writing books, my 40s have been about pursuing personal growth. Whatever were the mistakes of my earlier life, I've been committed to a pause, a regroup. I don't want to make the...”

“He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.”

“If Christ were born in Bethlehem a thousand times and not in thee thyself; then art thou lost eternally.”

“At some point, I would like to write a book and other things, but I work best when there is some sort of deadline in my own mind, but not when fifty people or fifty million people are breath...”

“Compared to other liberal cities like San Francisco and Amsterdam, New Yorkers are always trying to do something, make art or love or money or whatever, and they have this phobia about stand...”

“They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings steal a little and they throw you in jail. Steal a lot and then they make you king.”

“I could never understand how we could put 120,000 Japanese behind a fence in World War II. I remember being bewildered about that.”

“My father had a lot of allergies, and he just didn't like the cold of Chicago, and his father - his parents had broken up when he was young, and his father had lived in Pasadena for a while,...”

“A family can be the bane of one's existence. A family can also be most of the meaning of one's existence. I don't know whether my family is bane or meaning, but they have surely gone away an...”

“I'm a farmer with a mandolin and a high tenor voice.”

“You never know about team speed until you get out there. You don't know who is a slow learner. A kid may not be very bright or he may be real bright but he doesn't know football. You've got...”

“Life is short enough, there is nothing worth here to take your life, and those things we do gain can never be taken to our grave.”

“We can't get at crime unless we know what language it speaks. Otherwise, we are just suppressing the cough, not curing the disease.”

“I think relationships are the one area you should keep private, because there's nothing worse than people talking about them.”

“The Palestinians, whose national cause guards the gates of Arab-Israeli peace, look forward like their Arab brethren to that comprehensive, just, and lasting peace based on 'land for peace'...”

“I never felt like an Amanda.”

“Nobody wants to tell a truth which harms himself.”

“Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.”

“In many cases, the line between a thriller and a crime novel has become too blurred to be useful.”

“For me, it does not 'miss' if (the Potteries Thinkbelt study) goes into the archive, not as an example of how railway carriages can be used for teaching, but as one of the most powerful ques...”

“PBS was just such an awesome resource for a child's early development. And now I realize Mister Rogers is also an awesome resource for an adult's development because his philosophies are jus...”