Every accepted public quote

“My characters aren't losers. They're rebels. They win by their refusal to play by everyone else's rules.”

“I was a dogged reporter.”

“Your soulmate is someone you least expect to be.”

“My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.”

“When I celebrated my bar mitzvah, there was no cake. Today, there is no such thing as a bar mitzvah in the United States without a special cake. It can be even more complicated and expensive...”

“The American Way is an amalgam of our compassion, our strengths, our failings and our attempts to build a better world, a more perfect union.”

“Natalie from the Dixie Chicks could have said what she said before 9-11 and no one would have cared.”

“Right now is the time to repent.”

“It's like with me, I feel like I was never one of those rappers that, you know, stayed in one time warp.”

“I have enough music coming out of my kids' bedrooms when I'm at home.”

“At heart, 'Chef' is a daddy-daycare fable about an overextended man who teaches his 10-year-old son the family business and learns to love him.”

“Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.”

“I think people underestimate the importance of lighting - layers of lighting, not just one light. I do a lighting seminar where I take a $300-a-yard fabric and a $3-a-yard fabric. I show wha...”

“Enjoy your time in public service. It may well be one of the most interesting and challenging times of your life.”

“Quite often I can be in a bookshop, standing beneath a great big picture of myself and paying for a book with a credit card clearly marked John Grisham, yet no one recognises me. I often say...”

“Hate makes someone who stays in a big mention to stalk someone who stays in a shack, because people who hate don't see what they have and don't appreciate what they have.”

“With you a part of me hath passed away; For in the peopled forest of my mind A tree made leafless by this wintry wind Shall never don again its green array. Chapel and fireside, country road...”

“A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.”

“Life is always black and white. People are grey.”

“No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists. You cannot value him alon...”

“Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.”

“Never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.”

“Temporary is all you're going to get with any kind of health care, except the health care I'm telling you about. That's eternal health care, and it's free... I've opted to go with eternal he...”

“It's a big responsibility and great motiviation to be a Mexican fighter who is admired, and I thank God for the support I get from Mexicans on both sides of the border.”

“I try to travel as light as possible to avoid baggage issues. Los Angeles airport is notorious for baggage delays, so I'll often FedEx a suitcase ahead or back so I don't need to stand aroun...”

“I have no inhibitions about smoking or drinking, but I think too much of my voice to place it in jeopardy. I have spent many good years in training and cultivating it, and I would be foolish...”

“Only 7 percent of NFL fans have ever been inside an NFL stadium.”

“The island Mayo is generally barren, being dry, as I said; and the best of it is but a very indifferent soil.”

“Is Walt turning over in his grave? A man named Joe Roth runs Disney right now-he gave me the go-ahead and total freedom to do whatever I wanted to do.”

“Keep in mind that people change, but the past doesn't.”

“Words can be sculptured to mean almost anything.”

“I suppose that I inherited the same vocabulary and world view as most black Christians do, most Christians in general, to be sure. It was heterosexist in the sense that it took the heterosex...”

“If you want to change a country, you're going to be bumped every now and then.”

“'Catcher In The Rye' was my favorite book, honestly. I read it when I was thirteen, and the book was a bit of a family heirloom because it was passed down from my grandfather to my father to...”

“Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.”

“If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you'll be amazed at the results.”

“Going to school on a campus where the faculty overwhelmingly disagrees with you, and where the student body overwhelmingly disagrees with you, is challenging. If you go in without a firm fou...”

“I love Russell Crowe's line to Oliver Reed in 'Gladiator' where he asks him, 'Are you in danger of becoming a good man?' It's one of my favorite lines ever.”

“Call no man happy until he is dead.”

“If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.”

“Brandy is one of my favorite vocalists. Jay-Z is my favorite emcee outside of Biggie.”

“The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.”

“My kind of wanting to be funny didn't come from need, necessarily. The closest I can analyze it is that it was an easy way to make friends, I found out. It was just a great kind of social to...”

“All things considered, defending our borders by building a fence to keep out people is a necessity. There is no more humane alternative when it comes to protecting ourselves. We must act hum...”

“I wanted to be a sportswriter because I loved sports and I could not hit the curve ball, the jump shot, or the opposing ball carrier.”

“If language is lost, humanity is lost. If writing is lost, certain kinds of civilization and society are lost, but many other kinds remain - and there is no reason to think that those altern...”

“You can't sit back, rest on laurels and think about the past - what the journey has been.”

“My guitar is a 1934 National Trojan. They call it a resonator, which is the guitar guys played in the honky-tonks before amplification. It's very loud. It's the type of guitar that Son House...”