Every accepted public quote

“My brother used to get beaten up all the time because he was very effeminate.”

“At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear.”

“The whole purpose of books is that we read them, and if you find you can't, it might not be your inadequacy that's to blame. 'Good' books can be pretty awful sometimes.”

“One-way monologues through the Voice of America and Radio Free Asia don't have much street cred with China's Internet generation, to be honest.”

“I've been very lucky to put women that I sincerely admire on the cover of 'Vogue:' the then First Lady and now Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and, more recently, First Lady Michelle Obam...”

“They looked to each other for support, for strength, and at times, motivation, to remember why and for whom they lived.”

“Our house was bombed, and the roof fell in. We were sitting under the stairs of the basement, and we were quite safe, but it brought home the realization. In two nights 400 people were kille...”

“When you tune your guitar in a different way, it lends itself to a new way of looking at your songwriting.”

“If you watch most quarterbacks in the league, if you take more than two hitches, there's a good chance you'll be sacked. By recognizing things, it allows you to get to your fourth or fifth r...”

“In heaven there are two distinct loves, love to the Lord and love towards the neighbor, in the inmost or third heaven love to the Lord, in the second or middle heaven love towards the neighb...”

“Betting by insiders has a corrosive effect. It breeds suspicion, adds to the appearance of corruption, invites more corruption, and, in a sport like boxing, puts lives at risk.”

“I was born in revolution.”

“We yearn for the beautiful, the unknown, and the mysterious.”

“When you convince sci-fi fans you've done something cool, you get them in huge numbers.”

“El Paso is the final Wild, Wild West city.”

“Playing for the first time in Russia was wonderful, and it's a huge perk of the job to get to experience those different cultures.”

“I was a kid who was born and raised on Johnny Cash. My father played 'At Folsom Prison' constantly. Cash was the only thing I remember coming from our big, warm stereo console. Even then, I...”

“The act of dying is one of the acts of life.”

“It is, of course, true that I have given priority to the settling of the problem of security and the problem of Irian Barat, although I knew that in order to do these things, almost three-qu...”

“Thus, if armaments were curtailed without a secure peace and all countries disarmed proportionately, military security would have been in no way affected.”

“Failure is central to engineering. Every single calculation that an engineer makes is a failure calculation. Successful engineering is all about understanding how things break or fail.”

“He is a personal God who wants to relate with human beings, not just a force or an underlying principle or reality. Therefore the concept of the divine as it is often found within yoga is ve...”

“We are all the fools of time and terror: Days Steal on us and steal from us; yet we live, Loathing our life, and dreading still to die.”

“It was kind of a hard lesson when I figured out that not everybody is going to be kind, be sweet. So I've learned that I am never going to make everybody happy. There's always going to be so...”

“Any idiot can throw together a program or report and shove it out, but to get the balance and to get the skill set, that is what they pay us for. They don't pay us to prattle on the televisi...”

“In fact, most people are being squeezed in their little cubicle, and their creativity is forced out elsewhere, because the company can't use it. The company is organized to get rid of varian...”

“Mania is the most destructive of the forces. Everybody around you will tell you you're in trouble, and you can't hear what they are saying.”

“We are not a boy band in the traditional sense. We don't dance or have synchronized moves. We are a pop-rock band.”

“A chorus is not easy.”

“Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.”

“I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes.”

“Those old adages - you attract more with honey; do unto others - are true. You can get attention by being acerbic or mean or making a bizarre comment. But by being nice, being empathetic, bu...”

“All my life I've been rowing against the tide. What can I do? It seems I was born that way.”

“I got to take classes in writing with a fountain pen, and actually, something you make is your own textbook. So, while you're learning about something, you have to write essays on it, and th...”

“I just try to tell my stories in a way that is still light-hearted and fun to listen to. I'm not trying to bash you over the head with what I have to say.”

“I went to New York for the first time when I was in college for a school trip and, uh, it did not appeal to me. It was too much hustle and bustle.”

“Never dull your shine for somebody else.”

“There are different pastors that are good at different things, but one of the things I love is everything I do as a pastor is centered around helping people to understand what God has said i...”

“Knowing that cultivating love is an inner process, meaning we must first be whole and know that we have love within us, the process of matching and manifesting this vibration outside of us i...”

“A residence of many years in Yorkshire, and an inveterate habit of collecting all kinds of odd and out-of-the-way information concerning men and matters, furnished me, when I left Yorkshire...”

“It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.”

“I'm not very ambitious, sorry... I don't get up and think, 'Today, I shall achieve greatness.' It's more, 'Today I might have Marmite on my toast.'”

“There is a sacredness in tears....They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition and of unspeakable love.”

“As a five-year-old kid, I used to sit in front of the TV - I never missed 'Dukes of Hazzard,' not once. It was me and my dad's show.”

“The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes than he who distrusts them.”

“I prefer building rather than fundraising.”

“He who laughs, lasts.”

“I have two cats at home in Minnesota with my family. Beau and Skippy.”