Every accepted public quote

“Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.”

“The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage of.”

“Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.”

“Life's a bit like mountaineering - never look down.”

“He will one day meet his true love... A fellow traveler on the road... Her eyes will be his ocean... In her ocean he will sail forever....”

“I did not make my disclosure about the deceitful manipulation of the U.N. before the invasion of Iraq began in order to garner fame or fortune.”

“For most footballers, they just have to give their all for 90 minutes two times a week, and apart from a few training sessions spend the rest of the time resting. They only train intensively...”

“The warmest place I've ever been is my home here in Chapel Hill. It's an oasis of comfort and joy for me.”

“I was looking for a name with an old English sound, very easy to pronounce in every language and easy to remember. At the beginning I used J. P. Tod's, but then in 1999 it was shortened sinc...”

“I told the brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion, and a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by...”

“I'm very laid back, easy. There's nothing better in life than seeing your kids do well.”

“It is a coincidence that Mathangi is the Goddess of Music and the spoken word, which can be rap.”

“From a relationship perspective, givers build deeper and broader connections.”

“To be clear, people are the most important part of any classroom. If given the choice between a great teacher and the world's most advanced education technology, I'd pick the teacher any day...”

“My parents wouldn't let me shave it earlier, so I made a PowerPoint presentation to convince them. I strategically put pictures of bald women in there.”

“I remember taking a self-defence class when I was 16, and of course I don't remember any of it.”

“I wasn't beautiful, so there were plenty of character roles. I never did any Shakespeare, I'm far too superficial for that. I just act instinctively.”

“When I was 15 years old and in the tenth grade, I heard of Martin Luther King, Jr. Three years later, when I was 18, I met Dr. King and we became friends. Two years after that I became very...”

“I manage to scrape together a private life, despite the press.”

“Instead of forcing yourself to feel positive, allow yourself to be present in the now”

“I spent the first 18 years of my career at AT&T, and it was a wonderful place that kept me moving all the time. I mean, I started off as entry level a position as you can get at AT&T.”

“I knew Scotty was going to win. At the beginning of the episode, I was like, 'Scotty, are you ready to win?'. I knew he was going to in my heart. I accepted it. I couldn't pick a more perfec...”

“I went to college in Vermont, and then stayed in the East Coast.”

“My dad also plays a little banjo and guitar, my mom plays the mandolin.”

“People try to look for deep meanings in my work. I want to say, 'They're just cartoons, folks. You laugh or you don't.' Gee, I sound shallow. But I don't react to current events or other sti...”

“I've been trying to think of things to tell my kids, something that I could pass down, and it's like, gee whiz, I maybe never learned anything that didn't contradict itself.”

“My father was strict, but he recognised my ability and got a lot of flak from the church for supporting me.”

“The answer of our prayers is secured by the fact that in rejecting them God would in a certain sense deny His own nature.”

“Everyday I'm just going to continue defying limitations.”

“I love the breakfast culture - I opt for the French platter.”

“I came to L.A. when I was 19, and my two roommates were blue-eyed, blond dudes. I helped coach them, and they both landed pilots.”

“No one can do me any good by loving me; I have more love than I need or could do any good with; but people do me good by making me love them - which isn't easy.”

“A determinate purpose of life, and steady adhesion to it through all disadvantages, are indispensable conditions of success.”

“I love New York, and I'm drawn to a certain intensity of life, but I've just never felt like I want to escape from the Midwest. A writer lives a great deal in his own head, and so one intuit...”

“To have or not to have kids, when to have them, and whether we working women can 'have it all' has been debated, discussed, and examined since the washing machine and the TV dinner began to...”

“Obama is a leveler. He has come to narrow the divide between rich and poor. For him the ultimate social value is fairness. Imposing it upon the American social order is his mission.”

“Important reserves of natural resources, like petroleum and precious metals, are the bulwarks for laying the foundations for the future.”

“Affirmative action was designed to recognize the uniquely difficult journey of African-Americans. This policy was justifiable and understandable, even to those who came from white cultural g...”

“The catch phrase for the day is 'Do an act of kindness. Help one person smile.'”

“It doesn't help to fight crime to put people in prison who are innocent.”

“Nothing the European mind ever devised was meant to do anything but to facilitate the European's control over the world.”

“My best attribute is knowing when not to answer stupid questions.”

“I've never studied the classics, but I'd like to. My teacher offered to show me how the Greeks were able to sculpt someone perfectly. From there, you can go off and experiment - sort of like...”

“Not chasing success, I want to focus on my process. If I do that, eventually everything gets sorted out.”

“That's correct, I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn't write.”

“I taught English in Costa Rica before I went to college. I'm not an especially outdoorsy guy, but sometimes I would spot wildlife while whitewater rafting or walking in the rainforest at 5 A...”

“Growing up as an Asian American, we're lucky to have two sentences in a history book about the Chinese-American experience.”

“We are called to care for those sickened by pollution, house those displaced by environmental calamities, and heal the spirits of those - especially our youth - who are disheartened by a wor...”