You just get the vibes of your surroundings and it rubs off on you.

I know that we're being inexorably taken over by the Americans. Without a doubt. I don't mean invaded or anything like that, just taken over. By degrees.

All that remains is the faces and the names of the wives and the sons and the daughters.

You just get the vibes of your surroundings and it rubs off on you.

I'm not really a bird person or an Audubon guy who studies them, but as I was around them, they interested me.

I try to keep it light and positive most of the time, whereas earlier on I didn't always do that.

Turning back the pages of my sweet shattered dream, I wonder if she'll ever do the same; And the thing that I call living is just being satisfied With knowing I've got no one left to blame.

I don't think they should regulate the music field. I don't see how they can regulate the arts.

Be calm in the face of all common disgraces.

To wear the crown of peace you must wear the crown of thorns.

I don't sort of sit in a chair and pompously feel proud of myself about all the things we might have accomplished.

We try to buy as much American-made shirts as we can and stuff to sell. It's very difficult to cover every base as much as our country has been saturated with foreign products.

I think the French Open, in many ways, brought out a certain characteristic in me and in my game that was already there. Just the circumstances allowed for it to be able to show.

Safe, for a child, is his father's hand, holding him tight.

There are times when the adoption process is exhausting and painful and makes you want to scream. But, I am told, so does childbirth.

I was out on the golf course, a guy came riding out in a golf cart and said, Did you know that Elvis died? And I just said, Well, there you go. It was like I had kinda been expecting it.

I was born and have ever remained in the most humble walks of life.

Whenever culture has gone through a radical change, as ours has - from industrial age to information age - there are people who will deny that things have changed; they resist it and refuse to change.

We will also allow state companies to sell shares to their workers and will pass a law allowing citizens to start companies of their own with no limits on the number of employees or on the firm's output.

If I am still standing at the end of the race, hit me with a board and knock me down, because that means I didn't run hard enough.

Many people have strong views on McDonald's.

Most vampires I have discovered are men for some reason. I guess it's because of Dracula; people are kind of feeding off that.

I'm sticking my tongue out in scenes to try to make that work in 3D. I'm thinking I'll try to get my tongue all the way out to the second row of the audience.

Now I think that going to the gym is the best drug. I go four times a week and it gives me the buzz I need.

I can't go to war with paparazzi.

I remember my father, when I said I was going down to Little Rock to work for Governor Clinton's run for president, he thought maybe somebody needed to check the medication cabinet. He thought somebody was playing around with it. He had never heard of him, he said. I said, 'Well, I think he's going to be the next President of the United States.'

I think no athlete wants to end his career on an injury.

Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity.

Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.

Positive thinking must be followed by positive doing.

Democrats should be focused on which way we can help the most people in this country, and Republicans should be focused on how to do that in the most fiscally responsible manner possible.

We learn from each other. We learn from others' mistakes, from their experience, their wisdom. It makes it easier for us to come to better decisions in our own lives.

We're teaming up with a major Hollywood studio, and we're making a movie called 'Copper.' It's set on Mars in the 24th century. By then we've got 27 billion people in the world, copper is the world's most valuable metal because everything runs on electricity, and there's no more burning of hydrocarbons.

When I go down the ice, I feel it, the wind in the side of my hair, and then I got the party in the back.