Every accepted public quote

“Every new generation is a new crop that needs to be harvested for God.”

“I believe in second chances in life.”

“If I could make albums quicker, I'd be on a roll wouldn't I? Everything just seems to take so much time. I don't know why. Time... evaporates.”

“Any guitar solo should reflect the music that it's soloing over and not just be existing in its own sort of little world.”

“I have seen the best of you, and the worst of you, and I choose both.”

“St. Louis is more humid. But after a while, the heat started taking a toll on us, so we started rotating a little more up front trying to stay fresh out here.”

“Our many different cultures notwithstanding, there's something about the holidays that makes the planet communal. Even nations that do not celebrate Christmas can't help but be caught up in...”

“There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.”

“Remember all those references to Macedonia as the oasis of peace in the Balkans. You only really appreciate it when you have lost it.”

“A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.”

“I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.”

“Then when I was in grammar school I played the clarinet, and then, after clarinet I played the flute in college orchestra - besides singing in the college chorus and things like that.”

“Yeah, my first love was 'The Simpsons,' but in terms of movies and stuff, I loved 'Back To The Future,' I loved 'Jurassic Park,' I loved 'The Truman Show.'”

“When someone makes a racist remark, that doesn't make him a racist, but you have to say, 'This the line. You've crossed it, and you have to apologize' - not only to the person who has been h...”

“I didn't know folk music growing up, no. It's something I've come to study, really, because I think there's so much to learn from traditional music in the sense of the way music began as a w...”

“Every quarterback's goofy. Every player out here is goofy. Don't think they're all serious.”

“Misery loves company.”

“People always assume that, if you're an actor who's been on anything from which you're recognisable, that you're making all this money, and it's just not true.”

“Promising too much can be as cruel as caring too little.”

“In NASCAR, you can do a lot of banging around and get pretty serious and even get yourself upside down. All of those things can happen - and then you give an interview two seconds later.”

“President Reagan's one-liners were terrific.”

“Toni Collette has been a huge influence. She was my absolute number one idol, and then I got 'United States of Tara.' I was pinching myself. I couldn't believe the first day I was on set, an...”

“I never enjoyed making videos, even though the 'Total Eclipse' video was nominated for a Grammy along with the song. We lost out to the 'Billie Jean' video.”

“One of the weird things about Hollywood is we're all imposters; we're all just glammed up.”

“When you connect to the silence within you, that is when you can make sense of the disturbance going on around you.”

“A lot of linguists in the market, especially interpreters of foreign languages, do not have a great command over the English language, especially if they are translating into English.”

“Computerized medical records will enable statistical analysis to be used to determine which treatments are most effective.”

“Diligence is the mother of good fortune.”

“What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.”

“I believe in forgiveness, I believe in second chances, and I believe we should find a way to restore the Second Amendment rights to people who are qualified and have shown themselves qualifi...”

“The strength and power and goodness of America has always been based on the strength and power and goodness of our communities, our families, our faiths. That is the bedrock of what makes Am...”

“The mass, whether it be a crowd or an army, is vile.”

“As a kid, I was definitely a DC guy. I started reading big time in the '80s at the height of the Wolfman/Perez 'New Teen Titans.' That was definitely the book that hooked me.”

“You have to find that place that is very quiet in your head, and anytime I read it, anytime I come across it, my Bible, the first Scripture in there is Psalms 91.”

“Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.”

“I don't want what I am saying to sound like a prophecy or anything like an analysis of modern society... these are only feelings I have, and I am the least speculative man on earth.”

“We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes.”

“Room service is great if you want to pay $500 for a club sandwich.”

“To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing.”

“It started with those gentle drops and transformed into flood; My emotions are like the unstoppable rain now.”

“When you look at what's written under the Statue of Liberty, it's the immigrant story. It's about 'bring me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.' It's not abo...”

“Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.”

“I certainly had times when I thought this wasn't going to work out, but just being a working actor felt like a victory.”

“Some rivalries were personal, some professional. First, the curious case of Gambhir. Oh, poor Gautam. He & his attitude problem. He who has no personality. He who is barely a character in th...”

“Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.”

“Growing up doing those Kiwanis Clubs, doing those Cub Scout banquets, doing those church shows, I learned to find that sensibility that most people could laugh at - that all ages and demogra...”

“Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.”

“And for a moment there, despite the bruising, despite the snarled dirty hair, despite her sunburned skin and the suffering in her eyes that she refused to let defeat her, she was one of the...”