Every accepted public quote

“I talk about beepers going off in the middle of a concert and people being late and not apologizing, and people not RSVP-ing, and adult children going back to live with their parents, which...”

“The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.”

“The difference between ignorance and knowledge is conversion”

“I think my style is a mix of quirky, eclectic, bright, and fun, with a really sophisticated feminine silhouette.”

“It's interesting - Pluto's almost a brand unto itself. It's the farthest. It's the most diminutive of the classical planets. It's been maligned by astronomers. It's always the one with all t...”

“I'm always surprised that I'm still around funk and that people are still into it.”

“I don't think it's a good M.O. to disrespect your opponents, and maybe that's why the teams that disrespected me and my team lost to us.”

“It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's "mature" critics often are.”

“A magnetic personality doesn't necessarily indicate a good heart.”

“The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing.”

“We can make a concerted effort to stop poisoning the planet: that would be a good way of appeasing the gods.”

“And I was desolate and sick of an old passion.”

“No one who is in this world will deny that evils exist. What, then, do we say? That evil is not a living and animated substance, but a condition of the soul which is opposed to virtue and wh...”

“The time that leads to mastery is dependent on the intensity of our focus.”

“By 14, I had decided on three modest goals and repeated them often to everyone. I wanted to be a world-class filmmaker, CEO of a multi-billion-dollar entertainment company, and president of...”

“I was a student at Columbia College, actually, in the Architecture school. Paul would drive in from Queens, showing me these new songs. I can't remember us working it out.”

“Arthur Scargill's leadership of the miners' strike has been a disgrace. The price to be paid for his folly will be immense. He will have destroyed the N.U.M. as an effective fighting force w...”

“I didn't want to get pregnant while commanding an assault helicopter company and, before I knew it, I was deployed and missed out on many of my childbearing years.”

“I am the face and ambassador of sambo. The organization I'm working is trying really hard to make sambo a sport on the Olympian level.”

“You're not really supposed to like ABBA in Sweden. It's nerdy.”

“I always make my favorite pancakes with milk, and I also add some fruit - like a banana or apple with some cinnamon sprinkled on top. I also sometimes put peanut butter on my pancakes!”

“The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.”

“I understand being less sexy than Osama bin Laden, but not less sexy than Carrot Top. That, I find offensive.”

“Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idl...”

“65 immigration acts went through right at the time of the Great Society program. So pre-1970 immigrants - and that's basically when it kicked in - pre-1970 immigrants, 30% went home. They co...”

“Palin may be a polarizing figure, but she's more than just a 'political personality.'”

“When I was in the business as a young performer, it was a recognised fact that when you got to 60 you were out, because there'd be a new crop of comics coming up all the time, every 10 years...”

“My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.”

“A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.”

“I will begin my presidency with a jobs tour. President Obama began with an apology tour. America, he said, had dictated to other nations. No Mr. President, America has freed other nations fr...”

“The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.”

“I never had to do anything specific to craft my 'image.' I wanted people to know that I was a goofball, that I didn't take myself too seriously, and that I love what I do. On my Twitter and...”

“Well, I've been recording myself on a computer since I was about 13 or 14. So it's completely entwined with my creative process. Essentially, it allows you to make music that's better and sm...”

“Visions, imagination, curiosity and experience give rise to discovery.”

“Living with a nuclear North Korea could give its leaders the confidence to act more aggressively versus South Korea. It could also, over time, drive both South Korea and Japan, as well as co...”

“[E]ducation is a holistic endeavor that involves the whole person, including our bodies, in a process of formation that aims our desires, primes our imagination, and orients us to the world...”

“China is a place where you can experience two very contrasting things coexisting. First, the rich, cultural history of the country - and, second, rapid urbanization.”

“I cite my own example to all those who say they are depressed! I couldn't even move my hands properly and was given a few years to live. Youngsters need willpower to fight depression.”

“Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intell...”

“Adam and Eve are like imaginary numbers, like the square root of minus one... If you include it in your equation, you can calculate all manners of things, which cannot be imagined without it...”

“I have a very positive attitude to anyone who is protecting the environment, but it's inadmissible when people are using it as a means of promoting themselves, using it as a source of self-e...”

“The universe doesn't give you what you want in your mind; it gives you what you demand with your actions.”

“I believe in fiction and the power of stories because that way we speak in tongues. We are not silenced. All of us, when in deep trauma, find we hesitate, we stammer; there are long pauses i...”

“My blood pressure was always up from just overworking.”

“Although I was so big, and so rough in many ways, loved hunting, fighting, horseback riding, I loved the piano above everything else...The mountain man's obsession is to get a glimpse of the...”

“You could put this record on and not get jarred half-way through. I wanted it to be all cut from one cloth, and that was the way we took it through the whole production process.”

“There were realities the human mind was never meant to withstand, pressures it was never meant to survive. Knowledge is like the sea. Go too deep, and the crushing weight of it could kill yo...”

“There's always going to be the circumstances you can't plan for. There's always the unexpected relevance and the serendipity.”