American Quotes

It is increasingly important to be open-minded.

It is nice to be around people who think differently than you. They challenge your ideas and keep you from being complacent.

I have no way of knowing how people really feel, but the vast majority of those I meet couldn't be nicer. Every once in a while someone barks at me. My New Year's resolution is not to bark back.

When you let someone else win an argument, often you both end up winners.

We have to shore this thing up like a New Orleans levy.

The ill effects of thought come about when we forget that thought is a function of our consciousness... an ability that we as human beings have. We are the producers of our own thinking.

No one knows exactly where thought comes from, but it can be said that thought comes from the same place as whatever it is that beats our heart... it comes from being alive.

It seems that we have it backward in our society. We tend to look up to people who are under a great deal of stress, who can handle loads of stress, and those who are under a great deal of pressure.

Circumstances don't make a person; they reveal him or her.

The trick is to be grateful when your mood is high and graceful when it is low.

Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness.

What are movies for if not to have the good guys triumph over the bad ones?

The Greatest Generation got to save old tires, dig a Victory Garden and forgo sugar. The Richest Generation is being asked to shop.

On his own okay, Bush has authorized eavesdropping on as many as a thousand people over the past three years, with some of those intercepts being purely domestic, the New York Times reported.

I think of Oprah as a Mother Joseph wannabe, a daytime oracle rewarding the good and punishing the bad.

Is puppy love the reason so many Americans are blind to the incompetence and waste of Republicans - who at a minimum are supposed to be good money managers - running Iraq reconstruction?

As a columnist, I realize that whatever amount of corruption I expose, half my readers will block it out, although they may get a frisson of joy in the process.

Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed.

I consider a goal as a journey rather than a destination. And each year I set a new goal.

All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

When people have an inner sense of confidence, they're more beautiful.

I've always believed that humans are good at heart. But there's always the exception.

I'm a restaurant junkie.

I like clothes that are easy to wear. I like to be comfortable and confident.

Cop families have guns in their houses.

I'm really a very weak musicologist. Wish it weren't so, but there's only so much you can dig deeply into in one lifetime, as if you hadn't noticed.

Composition has almost always been solitary.

A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.

As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.

The next thing that happened to me was that I, we, were living in Paris where I then grew up.