Every accepted public quote

“Inequality of any kind, once considered a normal, natural part of human existence, came to be seen in the course of the twentieth century as increasingly illegitimate.”

“Celebrate your successes. Find some humor in your failures.”

“People talk about the Patriot Act that was passed immediately in the wake of September 11. What the Patriot Act did was break down the walls between the various agencies.”

“Your life is a book; make it a bestseller.”

“I wanted to use my fame and this face that everyone knows so well to help uplift and inspire people around the world.”

“The essence of religion is the knowledge of God which is eternal life. That and nothing less than that is religion. Everything else is on the surface, is superfluous save for the needs of me...”

“Not to go back is somewhat to advance. And men must walk, at least, before they dance.”

“I often think about Christ having all power, but He abdicated the power to live a sacrificial life for His children. In His own words he told his disciples that His meat was to do the will o...”

“Our holiness is an effect, not a cause; so long as our eyes are on our own personal whiteness as an end in itself, the thing breaks down.”

“I'm an essayist. And this is a genre that has existed for a few thousand years. Ever heard of Cicero? So these rules that I'm working under are not mine but rather were established by writer...”

“Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.”

“I don't like talking to celebrities.”

“When a salesperson truly cares about you, trust forms, and you're more likely to buy, come back for repeat business, and refer new customers.”

“Show me a university which is a hotbed of thin-skinned offence-taking, where every unacceptable idea is policed and every person who happens to hold one is hounded out of a job, and I will s...”

“Someone must transform income into the food, shelter, clothing, nurture, discipline, education, minding, nursing, transportation, and emotional support that creates life outside of the offic...”

“Do not trust the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you or I were going to be hanged.”

“Mercy is what moves us toward God, while justice makes us tremble in his sight.”

“Spiritual formation is for everyone. Just as there is an 'outer you' that is being formed and shaped all the time, like it or not, by accident or on purpose, so there is an 'inner you.' You...”

“The epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start our lives as if they were momentous stories, with a beginning, a middle and an appropriate end, only to find that they ar...”

“For the majority of the time, I may as well have been just a really tan white kid. You know, I may as well have just been, like, a fat kid.”

“Having a pulmonary embolism is definitely easier than heart break.”

“The greatest lie ever sold to mankind is that it needs to be better, stronger, faster and more powerful than it already was intended to be when it was created in the beginning.”

“Jolly Rancher candy canes are the bomb.”

“In Chicago, you have an absence of strong family units, and that absence gets filled by gangs. You have a failure in the school system, after-school programs and other social programs to hel...”

“The great majority of successful business men and women have been and are possessors of strong personalities of the right sort, and by analyzing their climb to success it is amazing to disco...”

“Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness, it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.”

“Look no farther than your hand, Make a choice and take a stand.”

“Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.”

“I'm not a fugitive anymore. Never will be in the future. After spending five years in jail, you learn your lesson. I never want to return there.”

“As Walter Cronkite would say, that's the way it is.”

“Sometimes the most remarkable things seem commonplace. I mean when you think about it jet travel is pretty freaking remarkable. You get in a plane it defies the gravity of a entire planet by...”

“A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.”

“I kind of cherish at least the idea of Midwestern candor and openness. But I couldn't live there.”

“In Chile, they have no movies. They have awful popular movies.”

“Sometimes the truth feels good.”

“I'll look to the cross As my failure is lost In the light of Your glorious grace”

“There's a film I did called 'Front of the Class', about a teacher who had Tourette's. That was a beautiful blend of drama and comedy. There's some great moments of levity in the script.”

“The more expansive government is, the more perils people face in daily lives, be it from IRS agents or from child support services, or from other agencies that often have little or no legal...”

“I must always try to do better because perfectionism, and the need to always have new goals and achieve them, is a state of mind that brings profound meaning to life.”

“One of the most notable traits of the Mexican's character is his willingness to contemplate horror: he is even familiar and complacent in his dealings with it.”

“I didn't leave bodybuilding until I felt that I had gone as far as I could go. It will be the same with my film career. When I feel the time is right, I will then consider public service. I...”

“The pursuit of happiness is one of the most common symptoms of intellectual immaturity.”

“The digital camera is a great invention because it allows us to reminisce. Instantly.”

“People have so many hang-ups about how other people live their lives. People always want to keep you in a little box, or they need to label you and fix you in time and location.”

“The experiences that I've had growing up with music, you know, I couldn't trade them for any money in the world. Dancing in the living room to enjoy myself. 'Enjoy Yourself,' Michael Jackson...”

“I only listen to my own music when I'm playing an hour-and-half set each night. I don't put it on recreationally.”

“So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.”

“When you think about a WWE Diva, you think of us girls in WWE, not, like, the girls that are in the indies, the girls in TNA or in other different companies. So yeah, the word 'Diva' means a...”