Every accepted public quote

“Thus the struggle between rule and spirit repeats itself year after year from school to school. The authorities go to infinite pains to nip the few profound or more valuable intellects in th...”

“Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.”

“Sure I believe in God and the Devil, but they don't have to have pitchforks and a long white beard.”

“I've always been the king of silence. I've always been a minimalist comedian. I've taken my influence from Jack Benny, who was the king of that... I've always done 'less is more.'”

“Well, no, you can prepare it all you want, but I'd still stutter.”

“I'd happily cover the British Open every year until St. Andrews slides into the sea or Scotland runs out of beer, whichever happens first.”

“Narrative has been part of human consciousness for a long time. And if it has played a part in all those thousands of years, it will know a trick or two. It will be wise. It will be mischiev...”

“It is my hope that Pope Francis realizes his time is better spent focusing on matters like religious tolerance and the sanctity of all life.”

“Courage is a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.”

“Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.”

“I think where traditional values are concerned, Chinese people see nature as very symbolic. It's a form of culture.”

“People were going to geometry class and I was swimming through vats of chili on 'Even Stevens.' It was like a dream!”

“There are a lot of questions about whether architecture is art. The people who ask that think pretty tract houses are architecture. But that doesn't hold up.”

“That period of history has always fascinated me - Greek history, Greek mythology.”

“In Asian languages, the word for 'mind' and the word for 'heart' are same. So if you're not hearing mindfulness in some deep way as heartfulness, you're not really understanding it. Compassi...”

“Meditation is a vital practice to access conscious contact with your highest self.”

“If I go on a diet and work out, I'm always in a bad mood. I'd rather be a little heavier but nice.”

“One of the symptoms of an absence of innovation is the fact that you lose your jobs. Everyone else catches up with you. They can do what you do better than you or cheaper than you. And in a...”

“Cities can become the engines that fuel our nation's growth and prosperity, and they can be wide gateways for families to achieve their own American dream of prosperity.”

“The people who created this amazing mission of exploration chased their new horizons hard; they never let go of their dream; they put everything they had into it; and eventually they chased...”

“The problem in business isn't that women are overlooked because they are women, it's that most people subconsciously look to employ a mini-me. It's not a gender issue, it's about diversifica...”

“Does he treat you with respect at all times? That's the first question. The second question is, if he is the exact same person twenty years from now that he is today, would you still want to...”

“'First Light' is nonfiction, a true story about astronomers who are looking for light coming from the edge of the universe. It tells how science is really done - and science is a lot weirder...”

“Leaders lead. They don't divide; they don't create a climate that is poisonous.”

“My short stories are like soft shadows I have set out in the world, faint footprints I have left. I remember exactly where I set down each and every one of them, and how I felt when I did. S...”

“Generations of devoted American history buffs have spent countless hours reading and writing long books about the American Revolution without ever having come across the name of Dr. Thomas Y...”

“Sometimes I had to spend a whole day mixing a boiling mass with a heavy iron rod nearly as large as myself. I would be broken with fatigue at the day's end. Other days, on the contrary, the...”

“I'd like to continue being involved with issues that animated my time as attorney general - criminal-justice reform and civil rights especially. I don't just want to give speeches; I'd like...”

“There's simply no substitute for experience in terms of aviation safety.”

“You do wonder - when you are at 28,000 feet, the height that aeroplanes cruise at, when you are struggling to draw breath and every limb aches - why do I do this?”

“All we have to do is to peel the shrines like an onion, and we will be with the king himself.”

“A child may not know how to feed itself, or what to eat, yet it knows hunger.”

“I think that we all have to have that rite of passage of dating the tortured artist who seems cooler than we think we are; we aspire to be like them, and we're excited that somebody is turni...”

“Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.”

“Biden's support for Mubarak in the face of his falling regime sends a powerful and unfortunate message to the Arab world that their freedoms are negotiable.”

“Spirituality can release blocks, lead you to ideas, and make your life artful. Sometimes when we pray for guidance, we're guided in unexpected directions. We may want a lofty answer and we g...”

“We provide transit facilities, we cooperate in equipping the Afghan army and security forces with arms and helicopters, we cooperate in training officers for law enforcement agencies.”

“I mean in the South African case, many of those who were part of death squads would have been respectable members of their white community, people who went to church on Sunday, every Sunday.”

“I realize that what happened in Bosnia could happen anywhere in the world, particularly in places that are diverse and have a history of conflict. It only takes bad leadership for a country...”

“I think it's very comforting for people to put me in a box. 'Oh, she's a fluffy girlie girl who likes clothes and cupcakes. Oh, but wait, she is spending her weekends doing hardware electron...”

“If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man.”

“I am excited to join the Bancor advisory board and provide guidance and insight to such an innovative team and protocol.”

“Once you begin to believe there is help "out there," you will know it to be true.”

“When I first came out there was no such thing as Twitter or Facebook. And the blogs! Like, what is that?”

“I get comments saying that I'm a leper, I control how my skin changes, I bleach my skin, my skin's burned. None of those are true.”

“The book's always better than the movie.”

“The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors.”

“I've never had it easy. There have been fortunate coincidences and instances, but nothing has fallen into my lap. Whatever I've achieved has always been through sheer hard work.”