Every accepted public quote

“And I loved Fats Waller. I love his instrumental abilities, his vocal abilities and his sense of humor.”

“Prayer is the mortar that holds our house together.”

“My technique has always been to include all the periphery around me.”

“The goal of jiu-jitsu in self-defense isn't to take someone down to the ground - the goal in jiu-jitsu for self-defense is actually to be able to defend yourself on the ground, get up, and g...”

“The Brits are escorting their ships, and we will escort our ships, and I assume other countries will escort their ships.”

“Caution and cynicism are safe, but soldiers don't want to follow cautious cynics.”

“Forget the ones who tell you you are not enough and wait for the ones who tell you you are everything.”

“Your immune cells are like a circulating nervous system. Your nervous system in fact is a circulating nervous system. It thinks. It's conscious.”

“A good cause need not be tarnished by its most fanatical expressions. But it is rarely helped by them.”

“I've written 18 books, mostly dealing with issues of social justice, ending racism, feminism, and cultural criticism.”

“Discontent and disorder were signs of energy and hope, not of despair.”

“Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the nonexistence of Zeus or Thor, but they have few followers...”

“I consider myself a court jester - motivator.”

“Success in America - what I find with my homeland, nothing lasts very long. Europe is different. You're right there with them until you come back.”

“I used to say to my opponents: 'If you let me beat you, I'm going to tell your kids you were beaten by an older man.' When I beat them I would tell them I did it with a slight hamstring prob...”

“I think it's a violation of user privacy to continue storing email addresses if you tell users your service is shutting down. I sign up for a service, and if you're no longer providing that...”

“I believe time wounds all heels.”

“The well of your soul will not experience the drought until in front of her will appear the moment of eternity to drink from the water of death.”

“I've always been suspicious of TV, I've always found music and video to be an unhappy marriage.”

“I'd never been to a prom, I had never had the whole high school experience. I think I was kind of an anomaly. I don't think they knew where to put me.”

“When the signal reached LIGO from a collision of two stellar black holes that occurred 1.3 billion years ago, the 1,000-scientist-strong LIGO Scientific Collaboration was able to both identi...”

“What we witnessed in Ferguson, in Baltimore, and in Baton Rouge was a collapse of social order. So many of the actions of the Occupy movement and Black Lives Matter transcend peaceful protes...”

“If you were falling in love and you could go back in time and relive a day and see the banal things you did that you'd forgotten about, you'd weep, looking at that day.”

“The sexiest thing in the entire world is being really smart. And being thoughtful and being generous. Everything else is crap. I promise you. It's just crap that people try to sell to you to...”

“As industry's tycoons of the Thirties got their wings clipped, labor's leaders in the Eighties are getting their wings clipped. Not because of any class-related antagonism, but because any e...”

“I don't believe in changing the unchangeable.”

“While everyone is focused on security and civil liberties, Trump's Cabinet of billionaires will try to quietly push through even more extreme measures to enrich themselves and their class, l...”

“It is certainly important to be looking for cures to medical disorders, but it is equally important to conduct research on human health and well-being.”

“Before I became the president of AT&T's consumer division, I was running strategy and our internet services, so I was the president of one of the first internet service providers, ISPs, AT&T...”

“At the end of the day, life is about being happy being who you are, and I feel like we are so blessed to have the support system and the best family to really just support each other no matt...”

“All explicit knowledge is translated knowledge, and all translation is imperfect.”

“I don't need the new fan; I need the fan that has anxiety - parents are getting divorced, social problems, gender problems - I need them to come to the ultimate show, and they're going to ge...”

“You know you're getting old when a four-letter word for something pleasurable to do in bed is r-e-a-d.”

“When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.”

“When a society is stressed, when it comes up against things that are hard to understand, you get a lot of delusional thinking.”

“I'd much rather see Richard Pryor or Jackie Mason in a theater than in a club.”

“Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.”

“I am acutely aware that you have not elected me as your President by your ballots, so I ask you to confirm me with your prayers.”

“If we doubt the power of literature and art to civilise, how come no one has ever been mugged by a person carrying a well-thumbed copy of 'Middlemarch' in his back pocket?”

“John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.”

“I think more money can be very detrimental to movies and TV because things get solved economically rather than creatively, and that's never a good solution.”

“I feel like I've been around for such a long time, as a writer and as an artist, that I need to sort of speak to the way that my perception of the world has sort of changed.”

“You can talk about and think about Muslims as you want, but you can't stop Muslims from building a mosque. You can hate Muslims from the comfort of your house or publicly, but when that beco...”

“There are several grave consequences that come with lack of knowledge, the paramount is destruction.”

“Aging bodies are fiscal black holes into which you can pour endless amounts of money.”

“I support Donald Trump because I believe he's a businessperson that's going to get the economy going, but also he's going to focus on how we destroy ISIS.”

“The only true time which a man can properly call his own, is that which he has all to himself; the rest, though in some sense he may be said to live it, is other people's time, not his.”

“I prize the conditions under which I have lived because they have permitted me to choose my opportunities, to inquire into such matters as interested me, and to publish what I believed to be...”