Every accepted public quote

“It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of in...”

“Power is strength and the ability to see yourself through your own eyes and not through the eyes of another.”

“Mama said it's probably because of Suzanne, and that you are never the same after a child dies. That made me wonder what she was like before Clover died, because I don't think I really knew...”

“Cricket and tennis are very different skill sets, but I've played tennis all my life, so it's a lot easier coming back than learning how to face a cricket ball for the first time.”

“My knee bends only to a 60 degree angle. Normally, like on my right leg, my heel can touch my glute if I just pull my leg back. On my left side, there's still a big percentage missing. That...”

“The industry is such - there is no guarantee that a show would work only because it is airing.”

“My little cousin tells me I look like Magneto so I guess that's who I should probably play.”

“To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.”

“I'll say this: The scariest monster in the world is human beings and what we are capable of, especially when we get together.”

“I've always tried to twist the ideas of beauty that are maybe considered to be ugly by the mainstream. I was already kind of toying with that when it comes to baldness, which came from a dis...”

“Liverpool is such a big club, and I was fortunate to be one of a select few to have played for them. It was an amazing time.”

“It is useful to study different traditions in order to be free of attachment to any one way of expressing what is beyond expression. (x)”

“If I were attorney general in Kansas in 1953, I would not have defended a Kansas statute that put in place separate-but-equal facilities.”

“The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express.”

“If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse.”

“We have to pay attention to developing well, in the correct manner, the human aspects also in the professions, in respect of other persons, in being concerned for others, which is the best w...”

“If you're serious about your music, there's this thing called The Remix Project in Toronto, and it's an art incubator, and it's basically like free school. If you don't got money for studio,...”

“To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.”

“Albanians love topiary and fancy doors. They speak Albanian, an Indo-European language with traces of Greek and Latin - and the lek is their monetary denomination, which trades at one hundre...”

“I feel like I've dreamed half of my life that hasn't happened yet, so a lot of times I'm going along, and I do stuff, and I know that I've done it. I have deja vus more than I have regular e...”

“The Torah is the foundational text for Jewish law, but the Haggadah is our book of living memory. We are not merely telling a story here. We are being called to a radical act of empathy. Her...”

“Secretary Clinton and I have worked well together, but the Arab Spring is a different question... This administration, collectively, made some very bad decisions, and they now have to climb...”

“Don't get me wrong - I've gone to a club. But I'd much rather be with my close friends at home or a concert, or on a trip. I'll go dancing with my grandma. She likes to cut a rug!”

“I'm not perfect; no one is perfect. Everyone makes mistakes. I think you try to learn from those mistakes.”

“If [God] send me no husband, for the which blessing I am at him upon my knees every morning and evening ...”

“If you're trying to recreate life, the life that you best know is the one you grew up with.”

“It's important to slow down, every now and then, for no other reason than to call someone to say 'Hi.' It doesn't have to be a long conversation. Just calling out of the blue does more to le...”

“Mars has been flown by, orbited, smacked into, radar inspected, and rocketed onto, as well as bounced upon, rolled over, shoveled, drilled into, baked, and even laser blasted.”

“We were together since the beginning of the Universe.”

“Ignoring your conscience is the first violation of Truth.”

“Brothers Bunk Beds! That's how we grew up. We grew up in a small house, a ranch style home, with three bedrooms and one bath.”

“I routinely interview college students, mostly from top schools, and I notice that their brains are like old maps, with lots of blank spaces for the uncharted terrain. It's not that they lac...”

“The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.”

“Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears.”

“I saw thee once - only once - years ago: I must not say how many - but not many. It was a July midnight; and from out A full-orbed moon, that, like thine own soul, soaring, Sought a precipit...”

“Casey Kasem not only played the music of the stars, he also reached the sunniest-sounding celebrity on his very own. Listening to him on the radio, you could hear America smiling.”

“Although it's not something I'm particularly proud of, I'm willing to admit that, in addition to whiling away the long stretches of time in the air and waiting in airport lounges reading the...”

“We need to stop illegal immigration totally and reduce legal immigration and end the diversity visas policy pushed hard by President Clinton and allowing many persons from the Middle East to...”

“It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.”

“Early in the winter of 2002, I gave my life to the Lord. Before I was one, I always thought being a Christian would be boring. In reality, it has been the complete opposite.”

“He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God; He must be no man, and quench his reasonable soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God.”

“Be humble. Your success depends on it.”

“He was a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero who goes to war must die. Show me a gambler and I'll show you a loser, show me a hero and I'...”

“There's something imminent in the work, but the circle is only completed by the viewer.”

“The mind cannot be securely anchored. If we do not advance, we go backward. If we do not grow, we decay. If we do not develop, we shrink and shrivel.”

“So many little girls dream about their wedding day. But with actresses, sometimes it's the inverse, because we get to be the centre of attention, looked up and down, dressed up for premieres...”

“Beethoven can write music, thank God - but he can do nothing else on earth.”

“I kind of miss writing songs the way that I used to write songs, in the sense that I would just sit down, and all these words that told a story would come out. There's one Bon Iver song call...”