Every accepted public quote

“If God is benevolent and almighty, why should there be so much suffering in the world? Luria's answer was that the forces that cause suffering and evil in the world are remnants of the unive...”

“As we all know, Cooperstown is the home of baseball. One of the many duties of the home plate umpire is to make sure that the runner touches home. Well, if you're a true baseball fan, you ne...”

“Great goals make great people. People cannot hit what they do not aim for.”

“As much as everyone says that Superman is good, a lot of other people might say that that's why they find him boring... A lot of Batman fans might say that.”

“Love is the most powerful thing in the world, and you know, what love brings is joy.”

“There is a connection between me and the collectors, and as admirers of the work they tell me about the differences the pieces are able to make in their lives on a daily basis.”

“After all the fertile land in the immediate neighbourhood of the first settlers were cultivated, if capital and population increased, more food would be required, and it could only be procur...”

“The million little things that drop into your hands The small opportunities each day brings He leaves us free to use or abuse And goes unchanging along His silent way.”

“Sly Stone doesn't make good albums: only good records. His style is so infinite and revolves around so many crucial aspects that it has only come together perfectly on a handful of his singl...”

“To succeed today, you have to set priorities, decide what you stand for.”

“Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.”

“Magicians lose the opportunity to experience a sense of wonder.”

“To find oneself jilted is a blow to one's pride. One must do one's best to forget it and if one doesn't succeed, at least one must pretend to.”

“Well, right now it seems that things are going very badly for me, have been doing so for some considerable time, and may continue to do so well into the future. But it is possible that every...”

“The wealthy are doing just fine in the Obama economy.”

“A consistent anarchist must oppose private ownership of the means of production, and the wage-slavery which is a component of this system, as incompatible with the principle that labor must...”

“In our fervor to halt the potential spread of totalitarianism, what incredible precedent are we setting in Vietnam? By marching our legions through the countryside of foreign continents, bur...”

“In truth, I am a single mother. But I don't feel alone at all in parenting my daughter. Krishna has a whole other side of her family who loves her, too. And so Krishna is parented by me, but...”

“I don't think there's any question that the UFL or any other league that wants to challenge the NFL can have an impact. The demand for professional football is off the charts.”

“My main source of reading is scripts, which doesn't leave a whole lot of room for books.”

“I was a thug.”

“If we want more trade in the world, we should establish bilateral trade agreements with other democratic countries. That way we can control the decision-making process. The major economic co...”

“I've not seen in my lifetime any politician who is a heroic figure. The manipulation that all politicians use on one level or another is so transparent.”

“I don't know how to function without music. When I'm not making it, I'm listening to it. It gives me courage and takes care of my mind.”

“Mental freedom is the product of mastery in several areas of our lives. We must master ourselves, our relationships, and our money. Mastering one without the others (or some without one) wil...”

“Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.”

“The more we know the less we understand”

“If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.”

“I have always been of opinion that all the political workers should be indifferent and should never bother about the legal fight in the law courts and should boldly bear the heaviest possibl...”

“You really can't do a remake. I mean, 'King Kong' needed its turn to be remade. It needed an update. But the 'Bad News Bears,' or 'The Shaggy D.A.,' those are classic movies. I think they di...”

“Most people doing the decathlon these days are quite boring, so people don't relate to them.”

“There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what oth...”

“I'm a pointillist, just working my tiny little piece of the canvas. I'm not so good at perspective.”

“Maybe our work appeals to some people more than others. But the opportunities that I present to my colleagues are completely uninfluenced by gender, race, sexual orientation, or religion.”

“The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past.”

“As Oscar Wilde should have said, when bad ideas have nowhere else to go, they emigrate to America and become university courses.”

“Because technically actors are just public servants really. They just tell stories because people need to be told stories. That's all it is. And yet we get treated as though we're important.”

“It sounds corny, but I've promised my inner child that never again will I ever abandon myself for anything or anyone else again.”

“I come from a country in which I experienced economic collapse.”

“For me, I have never walked a path that has been carefully crafted or charted. I have gone into territory unknown on many an occasion.”

“I might put a nicer pair of heels on and a cooler outfit, but I'm still that naughty girl who likes a slice of cheesecake on my day off.”

“Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.”

“Count Dracula had directed me to go to the Golden Krone Hotel, which I found, to my great delight, to be thoroughly old-fashioned, for of course I wanted to see all I could of the ways of th...”

“People are always asking me where I come from, and they're expecting me to say India, and they're absolutely right insofar as 100 percent of my blood and ancestry does come from India. Excep...”

“The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any p...”

“Climbing Everest is so big now, with so much money involved, and the Sherpas are not stupid. They see this, and they want to take over the business and kick out the westerners. This is a big...”

“The young student sits with his head bent over his books, and his mind straying in youth's dreamland; where prose is prowling on the desk and poetry hiding in the heart.”

“A book, a book full of human touches, of shirts, a book without loneliness, with men and tools, a book is victory.”