Every accepted public quote

“The secret to enjoying your job is to have a hobby that's even worse”

“I drove my mum and dad mad.”

“Don't try to reach God with your understanding; that is impossible. Reach him in love; that is possible.”

“Music fills the infinite between two souls.”

“I hope to see the bringing together of all the best educated people of the earth into a worldwide Congress of Scientists.”

“At DonorsChoose.org, we believe that teachers are unsung heroes.”

“For me, I try to see difficulties as a way of expanding and growing as a person inhabiting this planet.”

“I would like all my friends, followers, fans and fellow travelers to know that I am fighting cancer and will therefore be taking a break from performing while getting the treatment and cure....”

“Sand castles just aren't made to last.”

“Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.”

“It's important to read a book, but also to hold the book, to smell the book... it's perfume, it's incense, it's the dust of Egypt...”

“I love seeing my husband hold our daughter and just give her kisses, unsolicited kisses. When he doesn't know that I'm watching or when I come into the room and I look over and he's just kis...”

“If every American donated five hours a week, it would equal the labor of 20 million full-time volunteers.”

“Have you ever seen Glenn Beck in operation? It is the most terrifying thing. It's so bad that you think he's going to announce in a minute that it's all a great con. He makes Sarah Palin loo...”

“You can never go more than three or four hours without having something to nibble on or eat - you have to graze all day long.”

“I think most of us are raised with preconceived notions of the choices we're supposed to make.”

“I've evolved in my writing to tell a more emotional story - my publisher, Random House, has urged that.”

“Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense.”

“After Secretary Clinton announced in January 2010 that Internet freedom would be a major pillar of U.S. foreign policy, the State Department decided to take what Clinton calls a 'venture cap...”

“Winning the championship at 'WrestleMania' was a dream come true because not only had it more than a decade since there had been a women's singles match at 'WrestleMania,' but the fact that...”

“The imagination is a muscle. If it is not exercised, it atrophies.”

“I took a decision that I wanted to be a long-term player in Congo.”

“I pictured myself as a virus or a cancer cell and tried to sense what it would be like.”

“Our elephants are under siege because of an illegal international market that has driven ivory prices in the region up significantly. I call upon the international community to join us in th...”

“I'm not in the business of reading tea leaves. I don't have a crystal ball.”

“I try to get a well-balanced diet with a mix of greens, protein, and carbs.”

“I've never been one to go past 20 players on the wing. I'm always going to be the guy sneaking the ball through, to build and create something.”

“Abu Musab al-Suri is someone I got to know pretty well because he's a Syrian. Very bright guy, lived in London. He actually was the person who took myself and correspondent Peter Arnett and...”

“Koishikawa Korakuen Garden - one of Tokyo's oldest Japanese gardens, and one of the best spots for viewing the cherry blossoms.”

“It used to be that people would watch TV shows because they knew the characters would stay the same. Whether it's Archie Bunker or it's Thomas Magnum you watch it because it's like, 'I'm com...”

“Women play a finesse game: a real pattern game as opposed to flash and dash, power and strength.”

“I've always been attracted to cars, and driving is a completely measurable experience: if you qualify last on the grid, you're the slowest, and if you qualify first on the grid, you're the f...”

“Why I got into music was James Taylor, so to see him be a real down-to-earth guy that's unbelievably talented... then to hear him sing those lyrics of 'What I'm Thankful For,' which is a son...”

“After a hard day, choosing to do something to help you feel better - as opposed to staying in a bad mood - is a healthy skill.”

“Why not be a person who is loving towards humankind as a whole and people as individuals?”

“As a writer, I have readers who will have a range of political views. I don't think they look to me for political guidance.”

“Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.”

“I played Laura Bush in a Tony Kushner piece, and afterward, I think my phones got tapped.”

“Sitting by the chimney corner as we grow old, the commonest things around us take on live meanings and hint at the difference between these driving times and the calm, slow moving days when...”

“It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.”

“I'm so thankful to Fox News for the chance to be on 'Outnumbered,' but I'm leaving to focus on other things. I have no doubt the show will continue to do well and wish all my friends and col...”

“We were disliked by the press in the early days because they couldn't put their finger on us, and that was the case with Zeppelin as well.”

“I have more faith in doing something creative for a cable station or something like Yahoo or Google or Amazon. What Netflix did with 'House of Cards' and David Fincher was brilliant. That is...”

“I don't have ADD, but I only like to pay attention to the things I like to pay attention to, and things like getting a TV and getting the cable working are beyond me, and so I let such thing...”

“My father lost an eye to a snapped cable while trying to rescue trapped miners, though he kept on working for fifteen years afterward.”

“But the idea of a man making his living by writing seemed, in that hardy environment, so fantastic that even today I am sometimes myself assailed by a feeling of unreality.”

“Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.”

“My idea of serenity - that wonderful word that everybody's trying to get into their life - is call-waiting.”