Every accepted public quote

“Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.”

“When you truly embrace your human impermanence you connect with the power you have, and influence you have, over the time you have.”

“The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.”

“The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.”

“Always be truthful and you will have fewer visits from regret, guilt or fear.”

“Courage is always the surest wisdom.”

“I live in sin, to kill myself I live; no longer my life my own, but sin's; my good is given to me by heaven, my evil by myself, by my free will, of which I am deprived.”

“I turn to books for a feeling of companionship: for somebody knowing what I have known.”

“That's a paradox I've noticed, too: The news business held little romance for me, yet writing about it somehow stirred my affections.”

“If my career doesn't work out as a violinist, I want to become an archaeologist. I've read about paleontology, too - that's dinosaur bones - but I thought it would be more interesting to do...”

“God pursues us. He pursues us in our brokenness. He pursues us in our mishaps. Despite our rebellion or resistance, He pursues us to the very end.”

“I wasn't even a big comedy nerd. A lot of the comedians I know - a lot of my friends are comedians - they knew a lot about comedy growing up.”

“Truth in drama is forever elusive. You never quite find it, but the search for it is compulsive. The search is clearly what drives the endeavour. The search is your task.”

“There's nothing wrong with stretching the truth. We stretch taffy, and that just makes it more delicious.”

“You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.”

“It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible.”

“People with advantages don't tend to want to give them up. If you see it as a zero-sum game, then it will never change. If only the people who are disadvantaged speak out, then it's not enou...”

“I get recognized just often enough to keep my ego bouncing along, but not so much that I can't go places.”

“Somebody said to me, 'You should keep a journal of this period in your life and really write down this stuff.' But that makes me a little uneasy.”

“The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.”

“It's possible to get through life without a religious structure, but I don't think that's a very fruitful way to live.”

“She is magic. But she does not know it!”

“My art gets called political, as opposed to my intending it to be political. I think that's something that happens with black artists or marginalized voices trying to speak truth. Because th...”

“I love chilling in a cute sweatsuit and wedge sandals or sneakers.”

“One death to a man is a serious thing: a dozen neutralize one another.”

“Everybody made mistakes for years, but by making them, everybody learned - myself, the franchise, coaches, players, LeBron, everybody.”

“I was trained as a neurologist, and then I went into the theater, and if you're brought up to think of yourself as a biological scientist of some sort, pretty well everything else seems friv...”

“I'm not comparing Bush to Adolf Hitler - because George Bush, for one thing, is not as smart as Adolf Hitler.”

“Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.”

“Not only must Americans admire Israel, there can be no doubt that we have an interest in, and special responsibility for, that valiant nation.”

“People think I'm this angry black man walking around in a constant state of rage.”

“The eligibility for food stamps has widened and widened; welfare has been widened - unemployment insurance and disability insurance. These are all incentives not to work.”

“My idea of professionalism is probably a lot of people's idea of obsessive.”

“I have my issues with organized religion and cafeteria-style religion, picking and choosing certain dogmas that apply or seem ethical while ignoring the oppressive, non-inclusive, and outdat...”

“Racism seduces us with its desire to categorize, shutting out the living and breathing and 'different' world all around us.”

“Supposedly, some writers work in rowdy coffee shops or compose whole novels to Megadeth, but when I write, I wear a pair of chainsaw operator's earmuffs.”

“America and its allies are engaged in a war against a terrorist movement that spans all corners of the globe. It is sparked by radical ideologues that breed hatred, oppression, and violence...”

“Most of our music is about how we perceive the world and how we try to persist as normal, average human beings. So our fans inspire us and give us a direction to go as musicians. And of cour...”

“The true doctrine is that labor - systematic, effective, congenial labor - is not only a necessity, but is the source of the highest enjoyment.”

“I don't feel a day older when it comes to my approach to music or what gets me off than when I was a teenager. I've always been into different kinds of stuff and when I play I like to play l...”

“I've had chronic back pain since I was a preteen - like, 12. I have really funny posture. I developed this funny posture where I hunch my back a little bit when I'm playing, and I overuse my...”

“I'm the first Thai prime minister in history that first time win half of parliament seats and second time win 76% of parliamentary seats and I was ousted because too popular.”

“It would be a sign of society changing if we did finally legalize prostitution. Once it's legal, it doesn't mean your daughter's going to run out and be a ho. The more we sort of bring these...”

“Anytime anyone complains about wrestling, it's so annoying to me because people come off as these entitled infants. Because in reality, wrestling hurts so bad. And then we're hurting ourselv...”

“I have a collage of pictures of my dad holding my brother and me. I look at that before every game just to remind me about having no fear or regrets and to go out and enjoy the moment, becau...”

“The U.S has acquired reservoirs of goodwill around the globe over many years. But it is clear - from polling data and ample anecdotal evidence - that America is losing its allure in much of...”

“The 500X and Jeep Renegade are very different cars, but they are manufactured in the same plant and share R&D, which reduces the total investment required by 1 billion euros. That is why I'm...”

“I.Q. deficiency. There are some people who are an order of fries short of a Happy Meal, and what is often a characteristic about every one of these people is that they don't know it. They ha...”