Every accepted public quote

“People get excited about things like 'Swan Lake' because they generate a personal involvement. If you set up the story properly, audiences respond to the ambiguity. People ask, 'What exactly...”

“I just feel like sometimes I'm a force to be dealt with. My talents are sometimes overused and also sometimes underused. It's not easy being me.”

“This enraged the other Nazi so much that the next morning he came to our house and he shot my father.”

“There are absolutely lots of teachers who are trying to come into the profession, but they are not attracted enough to say, 'I'm going to switch careers to do it,' or they are often not reta...”

“Success is a beast. And it actually puts the emphasis on the wrong thing. You get away with more instead of looking within.”

“When I am gone, break the night. Set my remains on fire, so I can still be your light. For I am forever indebted to you. O people of the world, O love, I am eternally yours.”

“Whenever a man encounters a woman in a mood he doesn't understand, he wants to know if she's tired.”

“I learned early on that 'rabbi' means teacher, not priest.”

“Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.”

“I'm so tough and so bad, I can be humble and lift another guy up.”

“Prayer is the God-given communication link between Heaven and Earth, time and eternity, the finite and the infinite.”

“I'm very interested in foundational narratives.”

“Your fortune is not something to find but to unfold.”

“No matter what else is going on, Christmas is my all-time favorite period in the year. It has a positive effect on me like very little else does, seasonally, that is.”

“Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.”

“Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.”

“I want to speak to people directly as much as possible.”

“Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.”

“...organized religion is no longer good news for most people, but bad news indeed. It set us up for the massive atheism, agnosticism, hedonism, and secularism we now see in almost all former...”

“With 'Innerspeaker' I was trying to do these hypnotic '60s grooves, but it was so hypnotic and repetitive that they sounded like they were sampled. It was making electronic sampled music but...”

“No one really wants to admit they are lonely, and it is never really addressed very much between friends and family. But I have felt lonely many times in my life.”

“If you can break bread with a guy, you will actually go the extra mile on the court; that just happens.”

“It turns out our brain is sensitive, maybe too sensitive, to motion. It's a survival mechanism.”

“I always wanted to be normal. I tried really hard, but it's like I try so hard and then people still say I'm offbeat. I've learnt to accept that and take advantage of it as an actor.”

“The richest people in the world look for and build networks; everyone else looks for work.”

“I was very candid in my book because I want people to know the truth... and that people can change for the better.”

“I had the longest awkward phase. I had braces for 3 years; I cut my own bangs too far back and they looked like a bowl cut, and I broke my nose twice.”

“The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.”

“'The Dance Scene' is just a real look at what it takes. You see the award shows. You see the videos and you never realize what goes on behind the scenes. The reality and the preparation. The...”

“No one cultivates in a stony-ground, instead he cultivates in a soft-rich ground. Do not expect people to invest in you if you're a lazy type.”

“I started with Bobby Darin. He signed me to Capitol when I was 15. I was 14, getting ready to be 15. Then the next encounter I had was with I think Peggy Lee. I sang background with The Blos...”

“In the Bible, ordination - I don't see that in the Scripture. In the Bible, it's whether you're filled with the Holy Spirit, whether you're anointed by God, whether you're called by God, whe...”

“Nobody should be sent indefinitely into detention; everybody should have their day in court.”

“Lord, I come to you in meditation and prayer. I ask that you never turn from me. Never let me lack communion with you. Let my life be filled with all the beauty that abides in you and let th...”

“Winning an Olympic gold medal is like nothing else.”

“Trying new things and experimenting is something I push myself to do. It's one thing to have love for all different kinds of music; it's another thing to bring them together seamlessly and m...”

“I've been quite a late developer on the clothes front, but I've suddenly realised it is one of life's joys.”

“Don't be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.”

“I never brought it up when I coached, but I have close ties at Ohio State. Unfortunately, I even have a graduate degree from there.”

“In the studio, I don't do a lot of work that requires repetitive activity. I spend a lot of time looking and thinking and then try to find the most efficient way to get what I want, whether...”

“By God's grace, the only property my parents gave me was a good body. No BP, no sugar, no hereditary problems. Small build, tight skin.”

“I always found it ironic when a Saudi official bashes Islamists, given that Saudi Arabia is the mother of all political Islam - and even describes itself as an Islamic state in its 'Higher L...”

“The putting on of vestments and lighting candles, it's a wonderful ritual that never changes from one Mass to another.”

“Physiology and psychology cover, between them, the field of vital phenomena; they deal with the facts of life at large, and in particular with the facts of human life.”

“Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.”

“I have spent many years working in education and media, from hosting documentaries to being a spokesperson for Discovery Education to revolutionizing youth environmental service through my n...”

“Getting kicked in my teeth hard was the best thing that ever happened to me”

“I'm kind of ashamed to be a celebrity. I don't understand wanting to read about other people's dirty laundry. I think celebrity is the biggest red herring society has ever pulled on itself.”