Every accepted public quote

“Most atheists bristle at the thought that atheism has anything to do with faith, but not Penn Jillette.”

“Your mind cannot possibly understand God. Your heart already knows. Minds were designed for carrying out the orders of the heart.”

“The media has been trying to protect Obama. The media has been trying to shield Obama. Several in the Republican establishment in the so-called conservative media have even been trying to sh...”

“Any moment called now is always full of possibles.”

“When the poor know that their children will survive, when they educate their daughters, when they access family planning, they have fewer children.”

“At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world.”

“I have 'To Kill A Mockingbird' signed by Harper Lee. That is my prized possession.”

“Wherever there are communities fighting for freedom and liberation, there are serious tensions.”

“Without Arthur's voice, I never would have enjoyed that success.”

“One of the greatest myths in the world - & the phrase 'greatest myths' is just a fancy way of saying 'big fat lies' -- is that troublesome things get less & less troublesome if you do them m...”

“I don't tell you this story today in order to encourage all of you in the class of '04 to find careers in the music business, but rather to suggest what the next decade of your lives is like...”

“Pain is the mind. It's the thoughts of the mind. Then I get rid of the thoughts, and I get in my witness, which is down in my spiritual heart. The witness that witnesses being. Then those pa...”

“The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.”

“The lack of societal and institutional safeguards provides fertile ground for populist movements fueled by fear.”

“I've had many a player tell me all through high school and right up until signing day that they were coming to Alabama, then they signed with somebody else.”

“I have two curiosity cabinets at home filled with finds from jumble sales, markets and my travels. My favourite piece is a voodoo mask from just outside Cape Town.”

“In some instances, alimony has become akin to a social-welfare program provided by working women to their ex-husbands.”

“Middle class families are struggling to send their sons and daughters to school. For many Americans, a college education is essential to future success.”

“In terms of tackling different subjects, I can't really think of anything I wouldn't want to try; that's the fun of it right? Each new style brings new challenges - not that you shouldn't fo...”

“Maybe now, instead of being afraid and saying, 'Look how hard Terry tried, and he still got cancer,' instead people will say, 'Look at the effort he put in, and he died of cancer. We're real...”

“I grew up in India. From my childhood, I remember the great reverence that people held for our national hero, Mahatma Gandhi. He galvanized millions to march as one, disarmed the empire that...”

“Steam inhalation is a lovely way to take in the goodness offered by some herbs.”

“I feel overestimated.”

“Wenn man noch nicht das Leben kennt, wie sollte man den Tod kennen.”

“Guarding knowledge is not a good way to understand. Understanding means to throw away your knowledge.”

“The one thing you don't want is that stale sound when you've done a line so much you can't find a fresh approach to it. Drop it.”

“Are you prepared to put in the time and energy to create change in your life? Are you prepared to make and keep that commitment? If not you, then who? Invest in yourself.”

“A good writer should be able to write comedic work that made you laugh, and scary stuff that made you scared, and fantasy or science fiction that imbued you with a sense of wonder, and mains...”

“I think about me and my dad taking a road trip from Phoenix to Nashville when I was 19. He's no longer here with me, but I still drive that same 1994 Chevy truck. I never have bought a new c...”

“The Moon And, like a dying lady lean and pale, Who totters forth, wrapp'd in a gauzy veil, Out of her chamber, led by the insane And feeble wanderings of her fading brain, The moon arose up...”

“I still miss qualities of Khmer life that are hard to quantify: the slow, sensual pace, the hovering presence of the past, the vast skies filled with terrifying and beautiful butts. And, of...”

“Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.”

“Throughout my years championing for civil rights, analyzing politics and advocating on behalf of the voiceless, I am disturbed the most when harmless children suffer because of politics or d...”

“God is not accustomed to refusing a good gift to those who ask for one. Since he is good, and especially to those who are faithful to him, let us hold fast to him with all our soul, our hear...”

“I had classical training but I don't consider myself an opera singer though.”

“A lot of people don't realise I came out of the Smoky Mountains with a load of songs.”

“Write because you love to write.”

“If I'm sending emails, and I get all wound up and stressed and don't know what to do with myself for 20 minutes, I just go soak in hot water and lie there, thinking, 'What should I do?' So i...”

“Many people see happiness only in their future.”

“I want to keep pushing the limits for drummers and expressing myself.”

“There are a lot of recent pics of me rocking silk strings of beads. They're made by survivors of the sex trade in Cambodia who were rescued by one of the organizations I support.”

“It's an unwritten rule that when you move to California and you're an English person, you have to drive a convertible, and you have to bank with Wells Fargo because they have a stage coach o...”

“Prayer is not only asking, it is an attitude of heart that produces an atmosphere in which asking is perfectly natural, and Jesus says, "every one that asketh receiveth."”

“Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings.”

“As specialists of apparent life, stars serve as superficial objects that people can identify with in order to compensate for the fragmented productive specialisations that they actually live...”

“We were really lucky and fortunate in the '70s because we got a group of not only good football players but good people... a group that wanted to be together and wanted to be the best.”

“Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a...”

“The more I practice the luckier I get.”