Every accepted public quote

“The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump?”

“In the midst of the heartbreak and wreckage of 9-11, the world also witnessed what is America's greatest strength. Firefighters, nurses, police officers, first responders and local residents...”

“Love isn't always a physical emotion. Sometimes it's the ones who never got to actually hold you in their arms that appreciate you for who you are”

“I think that size is not the key to innovation. Scale doesn't confirm an innovation advantage.”

“The way we are living, timorous or bold, will have been our life.”

“Stephen Sondheim is calculus for actors. The words are witty and brilliant and profound but complicated.”

“The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.”

“A greater tax deduction for students is not a handout. On the contrary, it helps those who are willing to meet the challenges of higher education to invest in our collective future.”

“From 1994 to 1996, I turned over every rock in Little Rock, looking for a silver bullet that would take down the Clintons in time for the 1996 election.”

“I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.”

“Whatever your fight, don't be ladylike.”

“Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.”

“If you are not his first thought in the morning, he does not deserve a place in your dreams...”

“The criminal defense attorney is misunderstood if not despised by most of society. It doesn't matter if we believe in our adversarial system and the ideal that everyone charged with a crime...”

“We expect 'Narcos' will be an enormous success throughout everywhere in the world and maybe out-index in Latin America, given the Brazilian star and Brazilian director and heavy Latin Americ...”

“Sharing is everything”

“The name 'The Beach Boys' is controlled by Brother Records Inc., which was founded by the original members of the Beach Boys and whose sole shareholders voted over a decade ago to grant me a...”

“My ambition is to learn to play the trombone. My wife pulls my leg about it. I'll find time, my neighbours might not appreciate it but I'm going to try.”

“I've had menial jobs, and 'professional writer' isn't one of them.”

“Surveillance technologies now available - including the monitoring of virtually all digital information - have advanced to the point where much of the essential apparatus of a police state i...”

“Golf isn't just about hitting a lot of drivers. I grew up playing on my front lawn, chipping and putting into soup cans, out of the ivy and over rose bushes and hedges - the little Alcott Go...”

“Mostly, I think of myself as having great common sense. I've always been proud of that. Was I a terrific student? Absolutely not. But put me in a roomful of people, and I don't think I'm eve...”

“Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.”

“Maybe if they start playing new rock bands videos, then maybe but there is no point in a guy like me spending 250 grand for a video that no one is ever going to see.”

“Without failure, there is no success.”

“When Obamacare actually kicked in, just as we knew, if you liked your insurance, as I did - I had a health savings account - then I wasn't going to be able to keep it because it doesn't meet...”

“I loved playing with Barbies - that's why I didn't stop!”

“The truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth.”

“I'm not going to go run and hide because I'm catching some heat. I'm not going to stay at home and pout.”

“The less people know about you, the more you understand how beautiful life is. It's good when you exist only on screen. I don't want them to take me home. I love to have my privacy.”

“I have to fit holidays around tournaments, particularly the grand slams, in Melbourne, Paris, London and New York.”

“I don't control my writing - it controls me.”

“I joined the Aspen Institute, which is a terrific nonpartisan center. They have a wonderful effort that focuses on the impact of communications technology on society and our economy.”

“My mom had early rap records, like Jimmy Spicer. In the middle of the records was a turntable and a receiver - I used to scratch records on it - and on top was a reel-to-reel. In front of th...”

“Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful for, sometimes even perplexed by, how much misery I have been spared.”

“While I can't tell you what people are going to do for work 100 years from now, the future doesn't hinge on my imagination.”

“'Negro' can refer to anyone with dark hair as well as dark skin, and I've been used to the word being used in Spanish in this way all my life.”

“The thing I love about politics and sports is that there is an end goal - winning - and there are indeed winners and losers.”

“We are so resilient as a people. I have so much respect for their dignity and courage. I hope the world sees this side of Pakistan, one where professionals want a democracy. The spirit of ou...”

“The Kurds in Iraq just don't have enough military equipment - they also need humanitarian relief.”

“In Reykjavik, Iceland, where I was born, you are in the middle of nature surrounded by mountains and ocean. But you are still in a capital in Europe. So I have never understood why I have to...”

“Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words.”

“You cannot have development in today's world without partnering with the private sector.”

“...love is the sum of our choices, the strength of our commitments, the ties that bind us together.”

“The question that will decide our destiny is not whether we shall expand into space. It is: shall we be one species or a million? A million species will not exhaust the ecological niches tha...”

“Intelligence, knowledge or experience are important and might get you a job, but strong communication skills are what will get you promoted.”

“All through the years since World War II, the Japanese people have, I am convinced, made strenuous efforts to preserve and promote world peace, contributing to the progress and prosperity of...”

“My records are basically a litany of complaints against the world, and I'm quite like that in real life as well.”