Every accepted public quote

“That's how it is with art. Mere humans who root through their refrigerators at three o'clock in the morning are incapable of such writing.”

“What a company's been earning doesn't mean anything. What you have to look at is what people think it's going to earn. If you can see something in two years is going to be entirely different...”

“Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.”

“Conflicts are multiplying - people are suffering. But we don't give up, because we know every man, woman, and child deserves a life of peace.”

“It's been a thrilling journey - I have had to really learn that an orchestra is an entity - it's a creature. I have been calling it the dragon and the conductor is the dragon tamer. And you...”

“I say to my industrialist friends, when you have guests from out of town, I don't care how important they are, you should feed them the essence of Italian culture: spaghetti, bread and olive...”

“I've always been very suspicious of the left-right dimension in politics.”

“When I was a kid in junior high, I had an assignment to discuss how to rescue poor people in India. I remember my teacher at the time considered it an impossible problem. Now, we're not talk...”

“Raising a child is a little like Picasso's work; in the beginning he did very conventional representational things. Cubism came after he had the rules down pat.”

“I started trading around 1979, fresh out of college. In the early '90s, I started guesting for major news media.”

“I knew that if I wrote a new book every six months or every year, if I continued to read great books, eventually I would write something worthy of publication. I understood I might be in my...”

“I bought a book of Mark Twain quotes. That's about my speed. I'll read a couple quotes and put it down.”

“I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.”

“To punish a man because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who hold the same doctrines with him, that he will commit a crime, is p...”

“I hope royalty continues forever. This is the thing that can contribute to peace throughout the world.”

“I feel very accepted, like I never have any slander. I never have any issues. You know, like, when people see me, they respect me. It's all about how you carry yourself.”

“A new bubble will replace the old one. A new technology will come along to fix the messes we made with the last one. In a way, that is the story of the settling of the Americas, the supposed...”

“I'm not so much into the beats. I'm more into the spiritual side of the music.”

“The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.”

“There is something great and terrible about suicide.”

“You wouldn't wish hardship on anyone, but when it comes, you would be crazy not to see the huge growth that will come from it.”

“An early fascination with higher mathematics at the university level blossomed into speculative thinking that could provide a basis for dealing with economic issues.”

“The men are much alarmed by certain speculations about women; and well they may be, for when the horse and ass begin to think and argue, adieu to riding and driving.”

“I'm in California a lot; I go overseas sometimes and I meet more Hells Angels than other Angels do.”

“Looking back across the years, so many pictures flash on the screen of my memory that just as I begin to see one clearly, another slides in, blotting out the first, itself to be pushed aside...”

“Without global human rights, labor and environmental movements, companies would still be hiring 12-year-olds as a matter of course and poisoning our groundwater without batting an eyelid.”

“I had a ton of energy, ran around like crazy - more than a handful for my dad. I was crazy. Dad barely handled it. I was never diagnosed ADHD or anything like that, but I'm pretty sure I had...”

“Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.”

“I've got to say that I don't see myself as some sort of political type like Alec Baldwin or Barbra Streisand. I don't want to come across like that. I'd be embarrassed if that was the way I...”

“Tech stocks are trading at a 30-year-low when compared to the multiples of industrials (companies). It's the weirdest bubble when everyone hates everything.”

“'Post 9/11 Blues' is an observational satire about the surreal circus of fear at that time. It's a generational thing.”

“Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.”

“I was never a 'bad' kid, but I did get into minor juvenile trouble. Look, I grew up in Brooklyn. This was the '60s, and the neighborhood was rapidly changing and not without its problems. Al...”

“Let the punishments of criminals be useful. A hanged man is good for nothing; a man condemned to public works still serves the country, and is a living lesson.”

“The one thing about being a dude and writing from a female perspective is that the baseline is, you suck. The baseline is it takes so long for you to work those atrophied muscles - for you t...”

“A timeless piece of jewelry, like pearls or stud earrings, has lasting value. I bought a vintage ring for $600 with my first paycheck; I plan to pass it down to my daughter.”

“If a nation reads what is good with a good understanding, it gets a good understanding for a good nation building!”

“Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards.”

“The fates lead him who will; him who won't they drag.”

“I think Lin-Manuel deserves absolutely everything that he's getting. He is an extremely gifted guy, a very fine human being, and loves the theater. Loves it.”

“Numerous have been the manifestations of God's providence in sustaining us. In the gloomy period of adversity, we have had 'our cloud by day and pillar of fire by night.' We have been reduce...”

“Pay-for-procedure or fee-for-service reimbursement rewards doctors and hospitals for volume - not keeping patients healthy or being efficiency. Pay-for-Performance is clearly one tool that c...”

“Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?”

“Writers don't write from experience, although many are hesitant to admit that they don't. ...If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from emp...”

“Blatant hostility and racism toward whites is common among black youth.”

“You get tangled up in your own ego of how you're perceived. You can lose your way.”

“I sometimes feel I have met everyone he ever met, but I never met him. I am afraid to say I have always been - the word I would have to use is - amused by Howard Hughes.”

“I can't say that I haven't done some bad acting in my time. I have. Usually that involves what we actors call 'indicating,' when you twirl your mustache.”