American Quotes

It's my firm conviction that when Uncle Sam calls, by God we go, and we do the best that we can.

There's a lot of whiners in every crowd.

I firmly believe that you live and learn, and if you don't learn from past mistakes, then you need to be drug out and shot.

Babies control and bring up their families as much as they are controlled by them; in fact the family brings up baby by being brought up by him.

Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.

Doubt is the brother of shame.

Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom.

A goal without a date is just a dream.

Ride the horse in the direction that it's going.

Create your future from your future not your past.

Your life works to the degree you keep your agreements.

You don't have to go looking for love when it's where you come from.

Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.

It was enough just to sit there without words.

I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise, grew discouraged, and traveled on.

Here I am, where I ought to be. A writer must have a place where he or she feels this, a place to love and be irritated with.

Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn't discover America.

You know, some people fall right through the hole in their lives. It's invisible, but they come to it after time, never knowing where.

I was in love with the whole world and all that lived in its rainy arms.

I stick my neck out for nobody. I'm the only cause I'm interested in.

We know the ideal isn't where the action is.

The decisive moment in the defeat of upper class, capital-S, Society may have come when, in newspapers all over the nation, what used to be call the Society page was replaced by the Style section.

One serious drawback about letters is that, in order to get them, one must send some out. When it comes to the mail, I feel it is better to receive than to give.

One of the pleasures of being a Jew, I don't have to tell you, it allows you anti-Semitism.

No one has really ever defined what a friend is.

My wife who is non-Jewish regrets it all the time that I can say these terrible things about fellow Jews and she can't.

In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins.

I think the story is my form.

I myself think anti-Semitism is about envy.

I know how many days in which I have just answered e-mail, had three phone calls and a two hour lunch. Poof, gone. They are not infrequent.