Every accepted public quote

“Your initial idea may or may not work, but you have to remember that a failed idea is nothing but a stepping stone to a bigger success.”

“If you get satisfaction out of playing music and entertaining people and it makes you feel right, then go for it.”

“I have as many pictures of my vocal cords as I do of my children. I have a great ear, nose and throat doctor, and we look at them - if there's some redness, maybe I'll take a little time off...”

“The principle of equity first came into evidence in Roman jurisprudence and was derived by analogy from the physical meaning of the word.”

“May we meet again.”

“The club scene is terrible.”

“I spent my first paycheck on a vintage Mercedes.”

“I think I've always had a 40-year-old body, and now that I'm actually there I'm like, 'Hey, pretty good, huh?'”

“Emigration is always a difficulty.”

“Resentment is the weed that chokes the orchard of happiness.”

“I destroyed a lot of guitars trying to get them to do what I wanted, but I learned something from every guitar I tore apart, and discovered even more things. Things like if the string is not...”

“I'm vegan, though not completely religious about it. While writing 'Sapiens,' I became familiar with how we treat animals in the meat and dairy industries. I was so horrified that I didn't w...”

“Like Hillary Clinton before her, Mrs. Obama has always been a working woman. She is a lawyer turned hospital administrator turned political right hand. It is a unique resume.”

“I've had friends of mine hire people that I know well or that have worked for me, and I haven't gotten the call to do a reference check. That's almost the most basic thing one can do to asse...”

“I write because I must. It's not a choice or a pastime, it's an unyeilding calling and my passion.”

“Most of the characters in 'The Little Rascals' were living in poverty, but they decided to focus on the joy of being a kid: the humor, the heart, the resilience.”

“It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble, but we do know it is our sacred duty.”

“And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content that you have known me.”

“I spend a lot of time on forums, and they drive me crazy.”

“Everything I was afraid of when I was growing up, I've become. I've taken on my nightmares, like the devil and the end of the world, and I've become those things.”

“My government is working for the common man. Our priority is the poor of the country. We want good governance through a dynamic and seamless government.”

“Monetary policy is not a panacea.”

“Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.”

“Indian democracy's greatest strength is that we have always put the nation above politics.”

“Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.”

“There are more people at Obama's table offering ideas than there were five years ago, but when it came to facing up to the Republicans' threat to force a double-dip recession if they didn't...”

“I like the more community element of comedy. And I hate people pitting other people against each other. Audiences are always judging you, but when you're being judged for a competition, it j...”

“If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.”

“The misfortune is that although everyone must come to [death], each experiences the adventure in solitude. We never left Maman during those last days... and yet we were profoundly separated...”

“Pat Moynihan could write books with one hand and legislate with the other. I can't; I have a short attention span. The slightest distraction would take me away from writing.”

“We work a lot, and we have a lot of discipline because we are really tired that people know Colombia as a violent country. We just want to change that face of the country, and the music that...”

“I've had people come stand in front of the treadmill and wait for me to acknowledge their presence so they can speak.”

“Women like me aren't supposed to run for office.”

“My family is the most beautiful thing in my life beyond anything else, even music.”

“My parents wanted me to solace them for sorrows they denied having had.”

“Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.”

“We own a proprietary recipe for Casamigos Tequila that can't be duplicated.”

“What I like to do when I get to a new place is buy local music early on and listen to it while we're driving around. I think it helps explain and illuminate the culture of where you are if l...”

“I had been thinking for a while about how bored and tired I was of playing straight-down-the-middle everymanish characters that have what I call white guy problems. And I missed playing char...”

“There are many things I love in this world. Music, acting, and animals are at the top of that list.”

“I really just do what I like. I don't understand what the general public likes sometimes.”

“I have always believed that on important issues, the leaders must lead. Where the leaders fail to lead, and people are really concerned about it, the people will take the lead and make the l...”

“If I had rolled along with the strip's popularity and repeated myself for another five, 10 or 20 years, the people now 'grieving' for 'Calvin and Hobbes' would be wishing me dead.”

“I think comedy has to come from a real place. It has to come from an honest place.”

“I'm admittedly not that into the Internet.”

“The hardest thing is to tell the truth about oneself. One doesn't like to remember unpleasant details, but forgetting them makes one's life seem disorganized.”

“I used to have really long hair. It was a big fro with mad curls.”

“I think the greatest gift to me is that I can express myself in songs. It helps me get through some of the hardest times of my life. It also helps me celebrate some of the best times.”