Every accepted public quote

“I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.”

“I grew up in northern California, where it was consistently in the hundreds in the summertime. My dad didn't think he should have to turn on the air conditioning when we had a swimming pool...”

“The loneliest ebb of my life came on that Christmas eve, only one day after my arrival in New York. The abyss of loneliness. I ate a solitary dinner in a small cafe, and the very food tasted...”

“Women tend to judge other women harshly. We should be kinder to each other, accept that we're all different and can make different choices. Not go for some kind of stereotypical idea that we...”

“Somebody had given me a copy of 'Hunky Dory,' which had yet to be a hit, although it was starting to percolate. I'd seen a couple of pictures of David, with his interesting hairdo and outfit...”

“No film critic's going to say it, but 'Madagascar 3' is better than 'The Artist.'”

“The unsuccessful person is burdened by learning, and prefers to walk down familiar paths. Their distaste for learning stunts their growth and limits their influence.”

“But preserve your mistrust of the page, for a book is a fortress, a place of weeping, the key to a desert, a river that has no bridge, a garden of spears.”

“It was very difficult to startle or surprise someone with a particular sound during the family computer era.”

“If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters.”

“The octopuses seemed to be neither friends nor enemies, but in a state of complicated coexistence.”

“I think what happens with a lot of writing and art is that specificity ends up being relatable while universality becomes vague.”

“When I was a kid it was big news when someone flew around the world in a little aeroplane, but nobody cared when I did it. Then, to rub salt into my wounds, the customs people ripped my aero...”

“Once I came to Salt Lake City, I didn't want to go anywhere else. It was home sweet home for me.”

“I think, as a young guy, I was always drawn to being in wild places. Climbing was a logical extension of that.”

“I'll do manicures, but I won't wear nail polish because I don't have time to change it, and I chip my nail polish so quickly. I cannot last three days! I think it's the typing and the use -...”

“There's nothing more satisfying than seeing a happy and smiling child. I always help in any way I can, even if it's just by signing an autograph. A child's smile is worth more than all the m...”

“Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?”

“What I described in 'Another Life' - about being on the hill and feeling the sort of dissolution that happened - is a frequent experience in a younger writer.”

“My emergence has been slow and steady, I would say. I think I've improved every single year. I keep getting better; I keep getting fitter, sharper - and I'm not stopping.”

“I have very high expectations of myself. I'm a very competitive person but competitive with myself. I want to be the best that I can be and if that means that I'm eventually better than ever...”

“But that which fanaticism formerly promised to the elect, science now accomplishes for all men.”

“I'm quite fair and I need to protect myself with a good ball cap. Any time I can rep the Jays or the Leafs is great.”

“When I was in the 10th grade, I decided to run for a position on the student council with the campaign slogan 'Nuthin but a Boz thang,' so you might say joining Beats Music is like coming fu...”

“I was just excited to have challenging work to do and smart people to work with.”

“It's very important to take risks. I think that research is very important, but in the end you have to work from your instinct and feeling and take those risks and be fearless. When I hear a...”

“I write my songs and just play them, so there are not a whole lot of fireworks. As long as the music comes first, it's OK to have some fireworks. But not the other way around.”

“I think there is no better way to invite a human being to view their body differently than by inviting them to be an athlete, by revering one's body as an instrument rather than just an orna...”

“Sadness and boredom were more bearable than the effort of living a normal life. Perhaps the idea of death began to hover over her during that period, as a kind of higher order of lassitude i...”

“I like working really fast. The best ideas are the first ones that come into your head - so why bother thinking of any more?”

“The lesser evil is also evil.”

“I'll fall.' 'You wont fall.' 'I'll fall. I'll fall and I'll die.' As I said it, I could see it happening. The foot stepping on air, pulling the rest of my body with it, tree limbs breaking a...”

“I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I'm not ashamed of anything.”

“The heart is not a small place, Many can reside there As long as the rooms are all decided.”

“The hardware business is all about per-unit manufacturing cost and functionality. The services business is less asset-intensive and more dependent on people.”

“I've never been a big believer in formal education.”

“What is important is the story. Because when we are all dust and teeth and kicked-up bits of skin - when we're dancing with our own skeletons - our words might be all that's left of us.”

“The new spirituality will also base itself on a third very large spiritual understanding, which is that life is eternal. Most religious people claim to believe that, but very few people actu...”

“'Pigeonholed' isn't the right word, because I feel like I've had a very wide range of characters that I've been allowed to play.”

“Some of our earliest writing, in cuneiform, was about who owes what.”

“I think the work on tax reform, the work that's being done on regulatory reform is very important. And just having a seat at the table, I think, is so important for business today as we thin...”

“After graduating in International Relations in 2011, I turned down safe, corporate job offers and instead accepted a position at an 'incubator' in L.A. - a tech word for a team of people who...”

“I don't believe that the Bush Administration had something to do with September 11th. I do believe that there were a lot of warning signals, but I don't think they were ignored on purpose -...”

“The day I bought my cane, I realized I was through with the burden of feet. Instead, I am going to become a mermaid. I have always liked the ocean, the promise of depth. I am tired of this d...”

“I just want to be Patty McCormack. I want to spend every year aging the way she has.”

“It's not wrong to be skeptical. I was one who participated in the debate on Iraq and voted against the resolution because I was skeptical of the intelligence. But that was based on looking a...”

“Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what...”

“I have great family and friends who constantly uplift me and make me feel good about myself.”