Every accepted public quote

“I hope to have communion with the people, that is the most important thing.”

“I believe in Father Frost. But not too deeply. But anyway, you know, I'm not one of those people who are able to tell the kids that Father Frost does not exist.”

“One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.”

“Back in the day, I would wear up to 45 pounds of gold. It would take me four hours to get dressed!”

“I am inspired by both Japanese Samurai films, in particular the films of Kurosawa, and how they share the spirit of American Westerns, with the influences running in both directions, and inc...”

“Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.”

“We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It's about conflicts between creation stories.”

“The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.”

“When would he learn that women never stayed where you put them?”

“I have tremendous respect for teens who navigate the quagmire that is modern religion. If there is any message in my books, I want it to be that it's okay to ask questions, and it's okay to...”

“We may believe in the state's responsibility to alleviate the crushing poverty that afflicts 40 percent of Latin America's population, but most of us also affirm that there is no better cure...”

“A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.”

“I don't think that when I'm acting I feel like I lose myself to it, but that sense of losing, that sense of discomfort, well, I guess maybe that comes a bit! It's about redefining what 'unco...”

“Call me sentimental, but there's no-one in the world that I'd like to see get dysentery more than you”

“I don't think I've ever felt that same kind of peace, the kind of serenity that I felt after acknowledging that maybe I was going to die of this TB.”

“Choose love and joy as much as you can in each moment and watch your life transform.”

“The U.K. has to keep investing in new technology, skills, and infrastructure to keep pace with international competition.”

“He should probably make love to her.”

“Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.”

“Actually, the reason I'm a huge Arsenal fan is because when my dad moved over from Sri Lanka, he lived in north London and fell in love with Arsenal. Then he moved to East Grinstead and boug...”

“I'm heartened that, for the first time, we're seeing some of the Internet Service Providers and the social media sites taking action against the Islamic State. That's the kind of initiative...”

“A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.”

“If we're really honest with ourselves, most of us will admit that we want to impress people, and this is what's causing us to do what we do.”

“...ending a book with a sequel in such a way that the reader still has faith in the characters and in the writer. That's finesse.”

“I like to work out. I work out hard when I get to it, but it's so sporadic, I'm not sure it counts at all! I eat pretty much anything, but I eat high-quality food. There was never a packet o...”

“The philosophy of FIFA is to expand world soccer space, to spread out the world football space.”

“We must plant the sea and herd its animals using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization is all about - farming replacing hunting.”

“Being with her was the same as staring into the sun; he saw nothing, and yet when he looked away, there she was, a raucous white light imprinted at the heart of everything”

“Anything created by human beings is already in the great book of nature.”

“The longer I persist on my journey toward my goal, the closer I come to finish line.”

“The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds - how many human aspirations are realized in their free, holiday-lives, and how many suggestio...”

“Just because my dad is Clint Eastwood doesn't mean I don't have to work for a living.”

“I couldn't escape him, now or ever. He'd always be there, consuming my every thought, my heart locked in his hands. I was drawn to him by forces I couldn't control, let alone escape.”

“Courage to fail, confident to succeed.”

“I've shaken hands with every radio station, from Honduras to Ryan Seacrest's.”

“Pop stardom is not very compelling. I'm much more interested in a relationship between performer and audience that is of equals. I came up through folk music, and there's no pomp and circums...”

“I went to a large consolidated school in Appalachia. And I wrote the story when I was in the second grade and I took it up to the third floor to the school newspaper office that was written...”

“Today's my birthday On mans scale 53 is a life more than 1/2 over. On the infinite scale of an eternal being I am just a cell of life that has forever to go!”

“My twin sister, my cousin, and I used to write and perform plays for my family. We raided the closets for costumes and fought over parts. I'm sure I was the bossiest one.”

“Global security can be formed or threatened by heads of state whose wisdom, folly and obsessions shape global events. But often it is the security practitioners, those rarely in the headline...”

“Mistakes are a part of the dues one pays for a full life.”

“The problem is if Russia is organising exercises - and not being transparent about what exactly these exercises are about - it creates suspicions as to their objectives.”

“If I get something wrong on air, I get 1,000 emails correcting me instantly, and most of our story suggestions come from viewers.”

“An empowered heart is one filled with self love.”

“Playing interesting characters makes me feel alive.”

“In short, no pattern is an isolated entity. Each pattern can exist in the world only to the extent that is supported by other patterns: the larger patterns in which it is embedded, the patte...”

“The way I try to simplify my job is that I have two lists - I have a list of all the crazy, interesting problems that I get to solve every day or that need to be solved, and I have a crazy l...”

“He remembers which sister I like least and asks how she is doing. (lines 9-11 of the poem 'Divorce')”