American Quotes

Dancing is my number one love. That was my first goal as a child. I would love to do stage, maybe do Chicago. I love being in front of an audience. It's so stimulating. I also love to barbecue.

If you don't have a valentine, hang out with your girlfriends, don't go looking for someone. When it's right, they'll come to you.

People are surprised at how down-to-earth I am. I like to stay home on Friday nights and listen to 'The Art of Happiness' by the Dalai Lama.

With the stones we cast at them, geniuses build new roads with them.

We endeavor to stuff the universe into the gullet of an aphorism.

There are those whose sole claim to profundity is the discovery of exceptions to the rules.

Reading the epitaphs, our only salvation lies in resurrecting the dead and burying the living.

Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.

In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.

If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.

History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes.

Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird.

Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.

You can't be what you don't see. I didn't think about being a doctor. I didn't even think about being a clerk in a store, I'd never seen a black clerk in a clothing store.

We really need to get over this love affair with the fetus and start worrying about children.

Welfare distorts behavior, makes one less personally responsible and reduces the role of private charity. This principle applies to corporate welfare.

The No. 1 cause of preventable death for young black men is not auto accidents or accidental drowning, but homicide.

The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don't have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child.

Studies show that children of divorced parents can have outcomes as positive as those coming from intact homes, provided the father remains financially supportive and active in his children's lives.

Rent-control laws disproportionately benefit the non-poor because the elite pull strings, work the system and are better connected than the non-poor.

Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13.

People value and spend their money more wisely when they acquire it by their own efforts - also known as work.

Only in Washington does a decrease in the proposed increase equal a spending cut.

Nobody ever worked as hard as my father. My father averaged maybe four hours of sleep at night, and when you're a kid, you don't realize that.

My mom and my dad were married 56 years, and the fact that I reconciled with my dad I think made their marriage a little bit better as well.

My dad was a Marine. He was one of the Montford Point Marines. Those are the equivalent of the Tuskegee Airmen for Marines. He's a tough, tough guy. When I was 15 we had a fight, and I didn't speak to him for 10 years.

Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.

Lower taxes, less government spending on domestic programs and fewer regulations mean a better economy for everybody.

Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.

In the last 1,000 years, the Arabs have translated as many books as Spain translates in just one year.