American Quotes

People have motives and thoughts of which they are unaware.

We teach people that they upset themselves. We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today.

People don't just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness.

People could rationally decide that prolonged relationships take up too much time and effort and that they'd much rather do other kinds of things. But most people are afraid of rejection.

Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it's conditional.

You largely constructed your depression. It wasn't given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it.

I think it's unfair, but they have the right as fallible, screwed-up humans to be unfair; that's the human condition.

I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely seriously disturb himself or herself and how to overcome disturbance when it occurs.

By not caring too much about what people think, I'm able to think for myself and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular. And I succeed.

There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational.

There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy.

Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human.

The art of love is largely the art of persistence.

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.

It's not every day you do something that's never been done before.

I'd like people to know that you can head off kidney disease, maybe prevent a transplant or stop the disease from progressing after detection by doing a simple urine test in the doctor's office.

All the fans being here got my adrenaline going. I definitely got a burst of energy from them.

I'm a prime example of the way kidney disease strikes silently.

I was a healthy young man, and I thought I was invincible before I was diagnosed with kidney disease.

The opportunity, number one, to work with Ang Lee is an amazing thing for me.

I've spent my entire career on horseback or on a motorcycle. It boxes you in, the way people perceive you. I read a lot of scripts. Most of 'em go to other actors.

I've spent my entire career on horseback or on a motorcycle. It boxes you in, the way people perceive you.

I'm a four star general in this thing, and you don't rise to the ranks of a four star general by hanging about the house being the perfect dad.

I think I might have been a more interesting actor, had more of a career earlier on, if I had more formal preparation. When I see something ten years later that I was in I think, 'Boy, would I love to do that over.'

I read a lot of scripts. Most of 'em go to other actors.

I just went to see too many movies and I sat in too many dark matinees watching those old serials.

I don't want to be known as a sex symbol. There's a great stigma that goes with that tag. I want to be a Sam Elliott.

Hugh Grant is the main man. He's the number one romantic comedy man in the world.

Any of these Vietnam vets that have been there and know the deal, they don't feel that any Hollywood endeavor about the Vietnam era has ever gotten it right yet.

I was single-minded on what I wanted to do since I was like nine or ten.