Every accepted public quote

“You have cocktails for 250,000 people when millions upon millions are sick.”

“It is a big temptation to me, when I create a character for a novel, to say that he is what he is because of faulty wiring, or because of microscopic amounts of chemicals which he ate or fai...”

“Here they have no time for the fine graces of poetry, unless it freely grows in deep compulsion, like water in the well, woven into the texture of the soil in a strong pattern.”

“By the time a second term rolls around, the illusions about a president have largely evaporated.”

“Earthly wisdom is doing what comes naturally. Godly wisdom is doing what the Holy Spirit compels us to do.”

“My problem is being brutally honest. People don't like that.”

“My mother was the worst kind of stage mother. She would make me and my younger sister and brother little duckling costumes and put us in kiddie shows.”

“I once looked like Norman Mailer in a picture with bad lighting.”

“The oath of renunciation and allegiance is a solemn vow taken by thousands of immigrants each year to become a United States citizen. The oath is the fundamental statement of allegiance to t...”

“Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.”

“Things will change: you won't feel this way forever. And anyway, sometimes the hardest lessons to learn are the ones your soul needs most.”

“The John Birch Society is not ultra-conservative, communist-hating, and racist as opponents paint it.”

“In my opinion butlers ought To know their place, and not to play The Old Retainer night and day.”

“I was saving the name of 'Geisel' for the Great American Novel.”

“If you think something is missing in your life, it is probably YOU...”

“In the 1990s, Islamists in Algeria won elections like the Brotherhood did in Egypt. The Algerian military refused to allow the Islamists to take power. A war erupted, killing between 100,000...”

“I remember my mother had this deck of cards that her mother had given her and that she passed on to me. It was a gypsy tarot deck that I used to carry everywhere.”

“I hated sports at school. Almost everyone did.”

“In American math classes, we teach a lot of concepts poorly over many years. In the Asian systems they teach you very few concepts very well over a few years.”

“Police chiefs know a thing or two about public safety.”

“We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.”

“I hadn't thought that I was generally a pack rat, but it turns out I am.”

“For me, the 'Three Stoppages' was a first gesture liberating me from the past.”

“There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.”

“The average human attention span was 12 seconds in 2000 and 8 seconds in 2013. A drop of 33%. The scary part is that the attention span of a goldfish was 9 seconds, almost 13% more than us h...”

“The Eurogroup decisions are always taken unanimously.”

“My closest friend, who died not long ago, is buried near Marx's grave in Highgate cemetery, so I see the gaggle of admirers laying roses at the foot of his tombstone regularly. I have never...”

“I have been looking forward to this age of my life for a long time. In my twenties, I marked the days on the calendar - I was sick of playing high-school kids.”

“Logic only tells us what's there; it can't really address what isn't. Even the most devoted empiricist must admit that we have no hope of understanding the universe. Some things are unknowab...”

“As a pastor, I have a deep desire to lead people to God and encourage people to pray, read the Bible, and carry their faith into every part of their lives.”

“We grew up in a very strange world, because my mother was up against it all when she had three black children.”

“I think we shouldn't be shy of thinking that we can interpret text like a movie again, depending on the point of view and what we do with it more than anything else. Of course a lot of remak...”

“We hear many persuasive voices demanding freedom from restrictions, particularly from moral restraints. However, we learn from the history of the earth that any successful society has had bo...”

“I think the most attractive people are the confident ones, regardless of their literal appearance, so I strive for that. Basically, I think you'll always be the size your body needs to be if...”

“We're a nation of liars. But I mean that in the kindest sense.”

“Sansar (worldly life) has been alive by imitating the movements of the world, and is liberated by opposing it.”

“I go shopping maybe three times a year in an intense way. I'm like a man. Can't spend too much time in a shop.”

“I didn't marry a man that wanted to be in the business. But that's why we're a perfect fit.”

“I feed my heart with sighs, that's all it asks, I live on tears, I think I'm born to weep; I don't complain of that, since in my state weeping is sweeter than you might believe.”

“You're on earth. There's no cure for that.”

“When I was in charge of the Christian Coalition I was available to mobilize grass roots support for somebody.”

“If I could dress anyone, I'd like to dress the Queen - she can handle anything. I'd put her in black - she never wears black - and add a little leather, maybe. A little rock n' roll.”

“One of the reasons why we crave love, and seek it so desperately, is that love is the only cure for loneliness, and shame, and sorrow. But some feelings sink so deep into the heart that only...”

“Before Twitter or Facebook, all the fandom that I knew about was anecdotal.”

“Being in the fairway, I think the fairways are a little bit more overrated.”

“Obama is making a choice now that will lead to the deaths of many thousands of civilians in Afghanistan by American hands. By ordinary standards of presidents, he is a decent man. But those...”

“In saving Tibet, you save the possibility that we are all brothers, sisters.”

“The aftermath of the war is what inspired us to write many of our plays. The whole reason for our writing Inherit the Wind was that we were appalled at the blacklisting. We were appalled at...”