Every accepted public quote

“Don't start your day with the broken pieces of yesterday. Every morning we wake up is the first day of the rest of our life.”

“It is the unshakeable determination and will of our Party to put forward young people in the vanguard of the ranks of the general onward march as masters of the times and help them put up th...”

“When Trump says, 'Make America great again,' he is referencing an era when people were singled out and harmed because of their race and religious beliefs, and when violent enforcement of Jim...”

“Love what you do. There's always going to be someone else who's smarter than you, but there's no substitute for passion. People who are passionate always work the hardest, and that sets them...”

“For somebody in my neighborhood to aspire or revere a person from the upper class, that is the most ugly and pathetic behavior you could exhibit.”

“As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.”

“All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to judicious use of sabotage.”

“Personal life, expression, knowledge, and history advance obliquely, and not directly, toward ends or toward concepts. That which is sought too deliberately is not obtained.”

“Sometimes you can tell a wise person not only by what he says but also by what he doesn't say. Remember, it is much better to say little than to say too much and regret it later.”

“I would love to meet or work with Sofia Coppola. Or Wes Anderson or Spike Jonze. I'd love to meet them. The way they film, it's all so geometric.”

“I think timing is everything.”

“As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it's the citizen who changes things.”

“By running, you're making that commitment that says, 'I'm dedicating myself to public service.' Win or lose, you're making that statement, and you actually are taking a step in that directio...”

“Be not imitator; freshly act thy part; Through this world be thou an independent ranger; Better is the faith that springeth from thy heart Than a better faith belonging to a stranger.”

“I'm not going to change the world overnight. It's one person at a time, and hopefully they're people in positions of power who can help people get in those roles and really, truly embrace co...”

“A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.”

“Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.”

“During the middle of sophomore year, my friends and I would get bored at lunch, so we would film videos on my computer webcam of us dancing in the gym to Christmas music.”

“Conrad Hilton was very generous to me in the divorce settlement. He gave me 5,000 Gideon Bibles.”

“The system of idolatry, invented by modern christianity, far surpasses in absurdity anything that we have ever heard of.”

“Sometimes, I had very little - if any - idea for whom I was really working: at the end of the day, who reaped the profits? Was it a privately controlled German foundation or a global array o...”

“There is no one-size-fits-all spiritual practice or pointer. One person will gravitate to a highly structured approach, another to an approach that is more open and spontaneous. For some, me...”

“The three great moments of my life had to be the concerts of Ellington in 1938, Dizzy in '48, and Ella in '52.”

“It took me 14 years to write 'Crazy Brave' because I kept changing the form and I also kept running away from the story. I said I don't really want to write about myself. But it's about writ...”

“Society needs people who can manage projects in addition to handling individual tasks.”

“I have been instrumental in banning bottled water on the set. It hasn't gone that well with the crew... so I replaced it with tequila.”

“An important and fundamental premise of the American judicial system is the presumption of innocence, that is until proven guilty.”

“There are psychological repercussions to illness and we need a little more help to get through the effects not only on the afflicted but on the family. And I think there's even a place for h...”

“In a very real way, one writes a story to find out what happens in it. Before it is written it sits in the mind like a piece of overheard gossip or a bit of intriguing tattle. The story proc...”

“All I can do with my music is try and be a light for people who are in a dark time.”

“Two of the first plays I saw after I arrived in Britain were 'King Lear' in Liverpool, and 'Antony and Cleopatra' at Stratford. One was produced with hardly a backdrop and the other with gig...”

“If you don't like the way the Atlanta Braves are playing then you don't like baseball.”

“My work is a self-portrait of my mind, a prism of my convictions.”

“We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar.”

“The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.”

“You know the actor's nightmare is getting up onstage and not being prepared? I think the writer's nightmare is giving a reading and somebody standing up and saying, 'That's not your story.'”

“I think I am intrigued by paradoxes. If something seems to be a paradox, it has something deeper, something worth exploring.”

“I had been taught to read the words of men like Madison as a cast into which I ought to pour the plaster of my own mind, to be reshaped according to the contours of their faultless model. I...”

“I cannot think of any circumstances in which a government can go to war without the support of parliament.”

“I spent many hours ensconced in the local library, reading - nay, devouring - book after book after book. Books were my soul's delight.”

“It is ever the way of the Knowing. I have often thought it is like a light blooming on a dark sea: as it increases, so does the depth and size of the unknown. The most wise are those who kno...”

“There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself-an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.”

“A lot of the surreal writing that I love is really dreamlike. Like Murakami. He uses the real world, and it's pretty recognizable, but its populated by these strange visitors, or it has thes...”

“I feel lucky because I was a nerd, which I talk about in the book, but I had academic success, so through that, because that's what my parents put a great deal of value on, I had a great chi...”

“The priest is Christ's slave, and Christ himself took the form of a slave and became obedient to death. So the priest in serving human needs lives a Godward life, possessed by God and witnes...”

“Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things - he never said that gay people should be condemned. I personally think it is very fine for gay peo...”

“Stripe is building payment infrastructure for the Web, so we make it easy to accept credit cards online. Before Stripe, the way you'd do this is using the legacy banking structure. It was sl...”

“In some ways, being on the road is like summer camp. There's a camaraderie, but I'm also learning how to be more of a leader.”