Every accepted public quote

“You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.”

“My youngest uncle Randy and I were the first members of our entire family to ever go to college.”

“And we find at the end of a perfect day, The soul of a friend we've made.”

“Although I believe affection and romance should be shown all year around, it's always smart to have a good plan up your sleeve for Valentine's Day.”

“On recovering my senses, I hastened to quit a place where I hoped there was nothing further to detain me. I first filled my pockets with gold, then fastened the strings of the purse round my...”

“To be in your children's memories tomorrow, You have to be in their lives today.”

“My original business model - I actually wrote this down - was 'interesting work for interesting people.'”

“When I was a tiny tot, we only had one record player in the house, so there was either Genesis on it or the Jungle Book or The Beatles as well, and various other things.”

“Uncommon valor was a common virtue.”

“A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.”

“Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently. It is that which penetrates into the unseen worlds around us, the worlds of Science.”

“All the prayers in the Scripture you will find to be reasoning with God, not a multitude of words heaped together.”

“Then we kiss underneath the glow of dozens of lightbulbs shimmering in a tree. And for just this moment, my world is a fairy tale.”

“If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of...”

“Like many other scientists who hold the Catholic faith, I see the Creator's plan and purpose fulfilled in our universe. I see a planet bursting with evolutionary possibilities, a continuing...”

“I'm getting all domesticated. I feel like Susie the homemaker.”

“My family and school life are important to me.”

“Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.”

“I want to go out and do things... not just stick around having room service for two days.”

“I mean my mother migrated from Georgia -Rome, Georgia, to Washington, D.C., where she then met my father, who was a Tuskegee Airman who was from Southern Virginia. They migrated to Washingto...”

“I will only think of settling down after Salman Khan, the other most eligible bachelor, plans to settle down. We are eligible bachelors, but he's the rock star, so let him get married first;...”

“I'm a huge camper, and love hiking and mountain biking.”

“At the University of California at Berkeley, my interests broadened from military history to diplomatic history and other disciplines.”

“I really like the look of the 1950s, lots of suburban Americana influences. I'm 5'4', so I like kitten heels occasionally because I can move around a bit easier, but pointy-toed pumps are ve...”

“North Korea is not even close to being a near peer to South Korea or, much less, the United States.”

“When you look at martial arts films, the later ones became more and more exaggerated. It's like, wow, is martial arts only a show?”

“Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.”

“My study throngs with characters waiting to be written. Imaginary people, anxious for a life, who tug at my sleeve, crying, 'Me next! Go on! My turn!' I have to select. And once I have chose...”

“The problem was with Bill Clinton, the scandals and rumored scandals, the incubating ones and the dying ones never ended. Whatever moral compass the president was consulting was leading him...”

“We realise that natural aptitudes are not interchangeable, and each person must, of biological or spiritual necessity, practise the art for which he is fitted.”

“The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.”

“For me growing up, Christmas time was always the most fantastic, exciting time of year, and you'd stay up until three in the morning. You'd hear the parents wrapping in the other room but yo...”

“A renewed commitment to the freedom and opportunity of our people is the touchstone of our time. In this new century, where tests are many and challenges change with the shifting of the wind...”

“I have gotten into a lot of trouble in my life for being brutally honest. Sometimes I put both my feet in my mouth. But like Elton John, I'm still standing.”

“I was profoundly moved to be the first United Nations Secretary-General to attend the Peace Memorial Ceremony in Hiroshima. I also visited Nagasaki. Sadly, we know the terrible humanitarian...”

“The concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has long been used as an effective lens through which to examine the actions business can take toward ensuring mutual long-term well-bein...”

“It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.”

“Wisdom is a sacred communion.”

“At the age of thirty-seven, I was fat, and since the age of thirty-eight, I have never been fat again. That's the whole idea of effective weight loss - it's permanent because it's part of yo...”

“I think it's important for girls to be confident. Believe in yourself and... everybody's hot.”

“The knee-jerk approach of those who want to control firearms may not be the solution.”

“It is natural for a young fellow to like the acquaintance of females and customary for him to keep them company when occasion serves. Some one of them is more agreeable to him than the rest;...”

“When Donald Duck traded his wings for arms, was he trading up or trading down?”

“Don Quixote is one that comes to mind in comparison to mine, in that they both involve journeys undertaken by older men. That is unusual, because generally the hero of a journey story is ver...”

“The public is very fickle, as I was saying to my cabdriver, Gerald Ford.”

“As I write each new Thorne novel, I'm determined that whatever is happening plot-wise, a new layer of the onion will be peeled away and reveal something about Thorne that is surprising to me...”

“The crazy part, with all of the surgeries I had, I retained water from the IV fluids, and I gained 60 pounds. I was 247 pounds at my maximum. I couldn't even touch my face because my joints...”

“I've got no religious beliefs at all.”