American Quotes

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Yeah, it's funny, working on a show with as large a cast as we have here, your work gets sort of compartmentalized. There's still about half the cast that I've never had a scene with but I have missed working with Terry.

There are roles that are terrifying because they're large or you may feel that they're out of your line, but I'm never terrified once the actual work begins. Once you begin rehearsal, then it's small building blocks. It's solving little problems one at a time.

One of the things I like about performing on the stage is that it is a kind of meditative experience. Time does stand still. You have no concept or feeling of the passing of two or three hours' time. It's all kind of one present moment, which is a kind of a description of meditation.

It worries me a little bit the reach and power of TV. More people saw me in 'The Practice' than will ever see me in all the stage plays I ever do. Which is sort of humbling. Or troubling. Or both.

I've played villains on stage - you know, the Iagos and so on - but I think of myself as a funny person. I mostly did comedies before I did TV work.

I've been blessed by doing classic plays on Broadway, which was one of my great dreams forever.

I think of myself as a problem-solver. I want to go in and help the director and the writer to get the best they can out of the text they're working with.

With a strong domestic economy, low national unemployment at 5 percent, and increasing retail sales, the picture should look rosy. But one look at the trade deficit changes all of that.

China is not only formidable, it is also aggressively building its own economic infrastructure. Just a few years from now, China will rival the U.S. and the European Union in global market power. It already has surpassed us in population.

As the U.S. trade deficit, and the portion of that deficit attributed to China, continue to grow, our own economy is at risk of losing its reputation as a leader in world trade.

America's largest trade deficit is with China, a nation that enjoys Permanent Normal Trade Relations with the U.S. and ties its currency to the dollar to make it a more competitive trading partner.

America won the Cold War by protecting our strategic resources from the threat of foreign control. We must bring the same attitude to our trade relationship with China.

Already, China has undermined U.S. foreign policy in efforts to gain access to oil resources in Iran and Sudan. We simply cannot separate the political and economic values of oil.

All those trucks and barges that carry our goods to port are vital connections to the only force which can balance our trade deficit: export. We must keep doing what we do best if we are going to get America out of the red.

A key U.S. initiative in this trade war must be to develop reliable trading partners in the world.

When I was six years old my friend was auditioning for 'Annie,' and I decided I wanted to audition with her. My mom was worried I would fall flat on my face because I'd never opened my mouth to sing, so she sent me to vocal lessons. I did the audition and fell in love with the entire process of a sh