American Quotes

I regret losing certain women, but it was always my fault.

I never did drugs and I can't really drink because I have zero tolerance for alcohol, so my vice became women. I was never faithful to most of them.

I love driving cars, looking at them, cleaning and washing and shining them. I clean 'em inside and outside. I'm very touchy about cars. I don't want anybody leaning on them or closing the door too hard, know what I mean?

I don't know, 53 years with the same human being? I can't be around myself for more than three or four hours before I want to kill everybody.

I don't have an iPod. I don't get the whole iPod thing. Who has time to listen to that much music? If I had one, it would probably have Sinatra, Beatles, some '70s music, some '80s music, and that's it.

I cannot believe how much I love my kid. It's a beautiful thing.

I can work every day of the year. TV is easy. My call's at 8:30 a.m. I'd like to break out of the comedy thing and take a shot at something serious like theater. The off-season allows me to do movies, but I'm not tired of TV yet. There's nothing like it. I've got the best of both worlds.

I am not a spiritual guy, but all of a sudden I felt the need to really feel things.

Family, work, familiarity. Listen, if I had a magic wand and I could make myself really be happy, I'd zap me onto a farm. And I know nothing about farming.

Every day I think, 'Can I commit?' I think I can and that I will.

When I have a girlfriend, I feel caged in, I don't know why.

Don't ever take a shower with a woman, because you'll probably end up proposing to her.

I very rarely came across rude or disrespectful people. I don't know how I slipped by all of them, but I honestly can't think of one experience off the top of my head that was like that. I'm sure they're there, but I'd have to think really hard to recall them.

The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.

Sometimes I would almost rather have people take away years of my life than take away a moment.

Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible.

When you're young, the silliest notions seem the greatest achievements.

We look into mirrors but we only see the effects of our times on us - not our effects on others.

To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil.

There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love. What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.

Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence.

You cannot belong to anyone else, until you belong to yourself.

There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you if you don't repeat it.

You must change in order to survive.

People see God every day, they just don't recognize him.

No one can figure out your worth but you.

I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichever way God turns my feet, I go.

Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be first.

A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing.