Every accepted public quote

“I was always very extroverted and loud.”

“Money per se does not make you happy - it's what it enables you to do with your life.”

“The kinds of roles dogs fill can be hard to come by in human relationships. We touch the dog or the pet at whim. There is a lack of self-consciousness and a fluidity to it that is absent fro...”

“Strong emotional connections between individuals, customers, and salespeople that trust each other will always be 10 times more powerful than the most expensive ad campaign. That's the power...”

“The role of the pastor is to embody the gospel. And of course to get it embodied, which you can only do with individuals, not in the abstract.”

“I'm a real-life 'Hannah Montana.'”

“I'm a very loyal boyfriend. I'm a bit of a joker... I can be romantic, but not too sickly.”

“I was a librarian.”

“Consider that the overwhelming majority of those 40,000 near-Earth asteroids are small enough to fit on the parking lot at the mall. And while these rocky runts won't cause Armageddon, they...”

“Disguise our bondage as we will, 'Tis woman, woman, rules us still.”

“I've got a pretty iconoclastic attitude about all institutions myself. And I just think the church was corrupted right after Christ was killed.”

“There's as much great authorship in the filmmaker community as in the literary community, and I'd love to welcome more filmmakers into the fold.”

“Certain situations need a Jedi-like approach. One of these is when you are in a strange environment, usually where you feel unsure of yourself. You would be surprised how, if you walk with c...”

“A Turkey under a dictatorial regime, providing haven to violent radicals and pushing its Kurdish citizens into desperation, would be a nightmare for Middle East security.”

“My sister is a good story of resiliency. She had a full ride at UC Davis, but she left school to go to the Philippines - and then she decided to go back to school in her 40s, which surprised...”

“The first time I began to really think about politics was in fifth grade, during President Reagan's first term.”

“My grandmother, who passed away at the beginning of November, had a core adage in her life that 'life is not about what happens to you but about what you do with what happens to you.' She re...”

“The United Nations should become a proactive agent in the dissemination of democratic principles.”

“We awoke one morning in September, and the world lurched on its axis.”

“I'm an inveterate note taker - I scribble all these things down on pieces of paper. I wanted to create some way of organizing all of them.”

“When there is state there can be no freedom, but when there is freedom there will be no state.”

“My wife's a redneck, and she loves a muscle car.”

“I was never confident about finishing a book, but friends encouraged me. When I finished my first book, it was accepted by a publisher right away and became an instant bestseller. One male c...”

“Ideology has shaped the very sofa on which I sit.”

“Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.”

“Relationships should be built on trust and truth.”

“I'm more prone to his '70s material, which is what I was around for and watched a lot. I listen to a lot of that stuff. It probably influenced me quite a bit. I'm more drawn to the darker, s...”

“Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor.”

“I wrote my novel 'Bitter Greens' as the creative component of a Doctorate of Creative Arts and am now looking at the history of the Rapunzel tale as my theoretical component.”

“Motherhood has brought me many joys and insights, but the new perspective it granted me on the role I had inadvertently played in young women's lives for the 2 decades I spent in the modelin...”

“I live in Australia Zoo. I have a very private home. We've got three bedrooms, one bathroom... The carpets are rose-coloured, which grossed Steve out, but I love it. He let me do everything...”

“I've always loved action movies. The first films I fell in love with were 'Star Wars' and Steven Spielberg films.”

“I do tend to think that I've written a great deal out of my unconscious because half the time I don't know what a given character is going to say next.”

“But I must think that an address to his majesty to remove one of his servants, without so much as alleging any particular crime against him, is one of the greatest encroachments that was eve...”

“I don't believe there's any problem in this country, no matter how tough it is, that Americans, when they roll up their sleeves, can't completely ignore.”

“Getting to know experienced people is the best leisure time you can have.”

“Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.”

“An attempt is already underway to revise history - to leave the impression that the former president had nothing to do with Watergate. But there is no doubt about his obstruction of justice...”

“I have not been a good father, but no father has loved his children more. Like my father, I decided the best thing I could do for my kids was work and provide. Fortunately, I've been able to...”

“I found leaving Manchester United very, very hard.”

“I can box. I can hit hard. I've got different angles.”

“Everything is so funny in the movie. The funniest thing about the movie is the transformations they were able to make with the characters.”

“I didn't go to high school, and I didn't go to grade school either. Education, I think, is for refinement and is probably a liability.”

“When yields on corporate bonds are lower than dividends on stocks, that unnerves me.”

“Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.”

“We're so complex; we're mysteries to ourselves; we're difficult to each other. And then storytelling reminds us we're all the same.”

“European countries give much larger shares of aid for poverty relief than the U.S.”

“Let us put the normal divisions of politics aside. Let us come together as one country; let us seize this historic moment to shift the balance of power from the corridors of Westminster to t...”