American Quotes

One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart.

Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind.

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.

Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.

We only think when we are confronted with problems.

The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.

Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.

The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs.

To me faith means not worrying.

The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

The message has become clearer to the nation about AIDS. People used to think they could catch it all kinds of ways, but we now know that it is absolutely passed through bodily fluids.

The fact that a person loves one particular person is what is important; the life lesson, whether you are homosexual or heterosexual, is that you not be promiscuous, and true to one person.

I'm in the process of trying to find something that I could do on my own.

I still have to audition for most things.

I get a lot of independent films from people who are starting out.

No one comes into our house and pushes us around.

I'm going to be the next head coach at Notre Dame.

I could have coached better.

A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

We go old-school during the summer, like swimming or setting up lemonade stands. I try to teach my kids to make their own fun.

People talk about retiring. I never said that r-word. People though I went away after the Olympic Games. I took time off to do something I've always wanted to be - a mother.

People see me now and ask if I'm still running. I may look like I am, but I'm really not. People think I still run every day but I ran for 25 years and I deserve to not do anything but walk or ride the bike with my kids.

My grandma passed away at 98 1/2 and I want to live to 100. I want to be able to do what I can do even at 100.

Looking back, I'm so proud to have gone to five Olympics - I believe only three other Americans have achieved that.

It's totally different now, traveling to different meets and different cities and actually being able to enjoy the cities I'm in.