Every accepted public quote

“You make choices every day and almost every hour that keep you walking in the light or moving away toward darkness.”

“If you know how You do not need to know where...”

“I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterwards.”

“I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty.”

“When all else is lost, the future still remains.”

“In order for me to write, I have to experience life. I write the songs based on real life, and I perform them from a very real place.”

“My mom once lost track of me at the zoo and when she found me I was lecturing a man about the difference between dromedary and Bactrian camels. I was about 3 1/2.”

“All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.”

“If our brains were simple enough for us to understand them, we'd be so simple that we couldn't.”

“Poetry seems especially like nothing else so much as itself. Poetry is not like, it is the very lining of the inner life.”

“If you're walking with your lady on the sidewalk, I still like to see a man walking street-side, to protect the lady from traffic. I grew up with that, and I hate to see something like that...”

“Alas, those six unfortunate souls who have made their way through my books know that every one of them is about Emerson and Thoreau and their dark counters, Melville and Emily Dickinson. Try...”

“To get the most from agricultural resources, poor farmers' needs must come first, guiding investment strategies and forming the yardstick for gauging results.”

“I loved playing a character that women fancied.”

“Ben was more improvisational, and relied less on methodology, and basically is a guitarist who switched to bass, whereas Jeff has a more traditional approach to playing bass in a band, and h...”

“Literature is painting, architecture, and music.”

“In the bible it says you have to forgive seventy times seven. I want you all to know, I'm keeping a chart.”

“If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.”

“Life is not easy for anyone. You have to have ups and downs. You can make mistakes. You learn and try not to make them again. That's pretty much my principle.”

“The most important job I'll ever have is spelled D-A-D.”

“The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song. Praye...”

“If I go anywhere, and I don't have my coffee, I don't drink coffee. When I travel, I carry it with me - and I ask hotels to grind it and brew it for me if I can't have it in my room myself....”

“My favorite moments? Where it's all going swimmingly, the sun's out and I've got a fire going and a nice snake on the barbecue.”

“My belief is that every single major magazine cover is retouched. I don't know how they couldn't be.”

“I did improv in junior high school. Figuring out my comedic timing helped my confidence in talking to the bullies and talking to people in class. If I could make them laugh, then I was in; I...”

“Billie Jean just caught me on a bad day.”

“Mistakes we make in the past sometimes keep us connected. Heartache sometimes keeps us connected.”

“Pinocchio's really naughty. He's all impulse: 'I want to sleep now. I want to eat that. I want to run off to Pleasure Island.' It's commedia dell'arte meets Grimm's tales.”

“I've always wanted male friends that I could be real intimate with and talk about important things with and be as affectionate with that person as I would be with a girl.”

“Knavery and flattery are blood relations.”

“With my own cartoon, it was just me being goofy by myself, but when it comes to an animated film, you're working with 45 animators and assistant animators. It's a whole different ballgame.”

“Sometimes I like to think that the responsibility of every new generation of Democrats is to devise a program that mints new Democrats for another seventy-five years or so.”

“Many children with cancer in the developing world can be cured. But without appropriate treatment, few survive.”

“Picture books have terrible PR amongst the children of this country. Ask any librarian: after a certain age, children just aren't interested in the picture book section anymore. It's filled...”

“The novel is a seduction; a reader has to be seduced.”

“WhatsApp's extremely high user engagement and rapid growth are driven by the simple, powerful and instantaneous messaging capabilities we provide.”

“I do not own a car, and my main form of travel to Westminster and in my constituency is by bicycle. I also take my bike on trains to meetings in other parts of the country, which enables me...”

“Above all else, deep in my soul, I'm a tough Irishwoman.”

“The studios don't seem to foster good writing. They're not so interested in that, but they're more interested in what worked most recently. They're definitely very serious about making money...”

“I know that books I have written will still resonate in 50 years - particularly 'My Sister's Keeper.' It has sold three million copies in the States alone. I strongly feel that, as a novelis...”

“Usually, I am a compulsive person, and I need - sometimes urgently - to paint... Painting is close to poetry, is a kind of poetry expressed visually. It has to be spontaneous, rapid - at lea...”

“The sooner we put Egypt on the right track, the sooner we would be able to have an Egypt that is modern, that is moderate, and that is acting as a beacon for freedom and liberty across the A...”

“God doesn't want us to have rigid rituals with Him. In the new covenant, He is more interested in having a relationship with us.”

“My father was a Foreign Service officer, a diplomat and an Arabist who spent virtually all his career in the Near East, as it was called in the State Department. So I spent most of my childh...”

“If you go on a journey to Mars and get into deep space, there is several hundred times, maybe 300 times the radiation.”

“If there were a party of those who aren't sure they're right, I'd belong to it. (as quoted by Tony Judt)”

“My family background really only consists of my mother. She was a widow. My father died quite young; he must have been thirty-one. Then there was my twin brother and my sister. We had two au...”

“The tendency to turn human judgements into divine commands turns religion into one of the most dangerous forces in the world.”