Archived Quotes

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities.

Truth isn't.

It is better to be feared than loved,

if you cannot be both.

I do not expect the Union to be dissolved

I do not expect the house to fall

but I do expect it will cease to be divided.

It will become all one thing,

or all the other.

Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.

We want to be a giant machine

that is a gold standard for how to treat customers.

Not all of us can do great things.

But we can do small things with great love.

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me

than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

The goal of my shows,

my interviews, my business, my philanthropy, all of it,

whatever ventures I might pursue,

would be to make clear that what unites us is ultimately far

more redeeming and compelling than anything that separates me.

Where there is no vision,

there is no hope.

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed

to sell your parrot to the town gossip.

Being a libertarian means respecting the choices of others.

I'm just going to

go live life.

I'm going to

go enjoy life.

I have nothing

left to hide.

I am kind of

a free person,

a free soul.

I choose a lazy person to do a hard job…

I fear not the man

who has practiced 10,000 kicks once,

but I fear the man

who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.

Every burned book enlightens the world.

Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.

If a man had more than one life,

I think a little hanging would not hurt this one;

but after he is once dead,

we cannot bring him back,

no matter how sorry we may be;

so the boy shall be pardoned.

The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that

they can be great in whatever they want to do.

Life is about perseverance and believing in your art.

The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.