American Quotes

And I think belief is one of those things that comes to people in their own way. And just because I believe in something doesn't mean I think that you should.

If I can't get the girl, at least give me more money.

Almost everybody that's well-known gets tagged with a nickname.

After a while I started to think of that as an image of something that went a lot deeper than the dead dog, which is you can't bring back anything to life.

The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.

I'm greedy for that satisfaction of doing something hard and knowing that, even though I was afraid I couldn't do it, that somehow I can deliver.

As an artist, as an actor, as a writer, you have to use what's personal to you. You have to be personal about your work; otherwise, it doesn't ring true.

It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.

Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.

I'm an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger. What works for me is working out when it's useful to use that anger.

Begin challenging your assumptions. Your assumptions are the windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile or the light won't come in.

Never Have Your Dog Stuffed is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change.

Be fair with others, but then keep after them until they're fair with you.

You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.

When people are laughing, they're generally not killing one another.

No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.

Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.

Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.

Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in.

Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.

It takes two flints to make a fire.

Housekeeping ain't no joke.

Work is and always has been my salvation and I thank the Lord for it.

I like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman question. Whatever we can do and do well we have a right to, and I don't think any one will deny us.

Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say No when they mean Yes, and drive a man out of his wits for the fun of it.

A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of governing it well.

Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.