Every accepted public quote

“Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.”

“You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.”

“Cool things happen. Ace's guitar flies through space, goes through a hole, and blows up. I throw drumsticks and they come flying at you.”

“The Catholic Church's teachings are authoritative. There is a moral absolute on abortion - that it is wrong.”

“I used to go to the Improvisation Comedy Club every night in Times Square. How I didn't get killed in that area either means that 1) God is watching over me or 2) I am so insignificant to Go...”

“Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.”

“Failure is only postponed success as long as courage "coaches" ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.”

“They say that somewhere in Africa the elephants have a secret grave where they go to lie down, unburden their wrinkled gray bodies, and soar away, light spirits at the end.”

“My family was Jehovah's Witnesses, which is a really tough religion. It kind of deterred me from religion for a long time. They still practice, but I don't. But I always remained spiritual,...”

“She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again.”

“Getting to fight at the AT&T Stadium is a huge privilege for me and my career.”

“No one can say that democratizing financial services is bad. It is good for communities, countries, the global economy, and educational progress.”

“I've always said when age or infirmity gets the better of me, I'm off to whichever civilised country lets the elderly die with dignity.”

“Some venues are better run than others. Sometimes it's just maddening to deal with full dinners being served in front of your face. You can have a good or bad show anywhere.”

“I danced in a company of 'West Side Story' when I was very young. It was most of the original cast - Larry Kert, Chita Rivera - and Jerry Robbins directed. It was tough, a wonderful initiati...”

“What the heart gives away is never gone.... It is kept in the hearts of others.”

“Work is the inevitable condition of human life, the true source of human welfare.”

“When the first big paycheque with 'Dumb And Dumber' hit, I went: 'Gosh, I wonder if this will affect my performance. Will I do a take and think, was that worth $7 million?' But that never ha...”

“I don't think I've been in a supporting role in any of the plays I've done, ever.”

“You don't have to choose between doing good and doing well. It's a false choice, today more than ever.”

“When I was still in my psychiatric residency training in New York City, I was subjected to the doctor draft of that time, during the early fifties, at the time of the Korean War.”

“If the ways of the Almighty are not humanly logical, it is not the fault of the Almighty but of the limitations of human logic.”

“I was a product of the relationships with my family, the environment I grew up in; all those things I kind of put on the back burner when I got into music, and my life all changed dramatical...”

“This tedious letter to you . . . what is one life to another?”

“I haven't seen too many similarities between Montreal and American cities.”

“It's always good to have no expectations when you see a film. Then you can be pleasantly disappointed or surprised.”

“It's a wonderful profession, and it opens lots of doors, and I think it's quite right that people can accuse actors and actresses of being dilettante, but you learn on every job, whatever it...”

“Without butterflies, the world would soon have few flowers. There is enough room in the sky for all flyers.”

“I've been asked to do a retrospective since I was about 28 and I always thought that was a bit odd. It's great to look forward as an artist because in the future the possibilities are infini...”

“The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundr...”

“I think whenever people talk about the 'Anna Sui woman,' they're talking about someone that's probably kind of more downtown, and there's always like this ambiguity: Is she a good girl, or a...”

“I'm not a wild and crazy person.”

“To live alone is the fate of all great souls.”

“There haven't been that many players, both men and women, from South Africa breaking through on the pro level. It's not easy because you have to really start playing tennis at a young age an...”

“Well, the biggest rival I had in my career was me.”

“Nobody's all good or bad, and nobody's all light or dark. Every human being has so many different aspects and facets to them. And there can be something noble and something really dark and d...”

“Regardless of what society says, we can't go on much longer in the sea of immorality without judgment coming.”

“I don't want to play games with anybody, to our fans, to Pierre Lacroix, or any other NHL team that might have interest in me.”

“At first, you fall in love. You wake in the morning woozy and your twilight is lit with astral violet light. You spelunk down into each other until you come to possess some inner vision of e...”

“As David Cameron so brutally found out in 2015-16, there is limited appetite in Brussels to be helpful or flexible towards Britain.”

“I feel like Drake could literally put out anything - like, the sound of seagulls over a beat - and it could be the Number One song on Spotify.”

“As a member of Congress, I believe Congress must provide oversight of actions by the Executive Branch as our system of checks and balances requires.”

“We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.”

“I was critical of race-based affirmative action early on in my career and I've changed my mind. And I've publicly acknowledged that I was wrong.”

“A white male Mormon millionaire was not gonna beat Ted Kennedy in Massachusetts, but someone deserved to go out there and give him a real run for his money.”

“When I was a kid, I had asthma, so I would have to take cod liver oil all the time. So anything fishy that reminds me of that taste, I can't eat. I love Chilean sea bass because I don't tast...”

“We may know the chemical structure of medicinal drugs, but we frequently have a very incomplete understanding of how they work.”

“I liked being Eddie the Eagle, but I also like being Michael Edwards, plasterer and general builder.”