American Quotes

I always tried to hide the fact that I was an athlete. I just wanted to be normal.

Nobody wants to go through divorce, especially when there's young children involved.

Some times you lose more than you win. It's about handling losses and trying to turn them into positives. You get out into the big leagues and there's a period of adjustment to be made. You've got to handle it.

This is very clever. They have created a system to cheat.

Custom, that unwritten law, By which the people keep even kings in awe.

Those are the two best words in English, 'Bidding' and 'war'.

No one prepared me for the stress and insanity of a week leading up to a movie. Years and years of work come down to three days.

When your are playing for the national championship, it's not a matter of life or death. It's more important than that.

I could have been a Rhodes Scholar, except for my grades.

Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.

My only feeling about superstition is that it's unlucky to be behind at the end of the game.

When I look at my life, I see that I wanted to be free of the physical plane, the psychological plane, and when I got free of those I didn't want to go anywhere near them.

Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.

My guru said that when he suffers, it brings him closer to God. I have found this, too.

My belief is that I wasn't born into Judaism by accident, and so I needed to find ways to honor that.

If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.

I have always said that often the religion you were born with becomes more important to you as you see the universality of truth.

From a Hindu perspective, you are born as what you need to deal with, and if you just try and push it away, whatever it is, it's got you.

Your problem is you're... too busy holding onto your unworthiness.

Inspiration is God making contact with itself.

Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.

When you are already in Detroit, you don't have to take a bus to get there.

It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.

I went to my last three years of high school in New Jersey. I just wanted to act, you know?

I came across awful characters when I got some kind of status and came to Hollywood. Then you have directors trying to sleep with you, assuming that you will do things because of the way you dress.

When you believe in what you're doing and use your imagination and initiative, you can make a difference.

Watergate was unique because it allowed the public to play its democratic role in expressing its outrage at the presidency. And as a result, for the first time in history a president resigned.

Unless you have a perception of who you are as a lawyer, you will never be at ease in dealing with legal matters, clients, or courts. But if you know who you are and why you're there, all you need is the expertise and the information.

One of the things I realized early in my career is that you do what you believe, in knowing that if you don't, you will never like yourself. When you compromise out of fear or ambition, it eats inside you.

I've always wanted to be my own person and stand by the things I believe in and I thought I might lose that independence if I ran for political office.