Sam Quotes

I called a detox center - just to see how much it would cost: $13,000 for three weeks! My friends, if you can come up with thirteen grand, you don't have a problem yet.

We have a choice. We have two options as human beings. We have a choice between conversation and war. That's it. Conversation and violence. And faith is a conversation stopper.

To anyone out there especially young people feeling like they don't fit in and will never be accepted, please know this, great things can happen when you have the courage to be yourself.

I surround myself with people that I want to be with. And I keep moving forward.

How we pay attention to the present moment...determin es the character of our experience and...the quality of our lives.

There are scientists who will tell you that spirit, because it can’t be measured, doesn’t exist. Bollocks. It does exist.

Love is the only disease that makes you feel better.

Hate is the complement of fear and narcissists like being feared. It imbues them with an intoxicating sensation of omnipotence.

A man can please his wife with a box of candy, surprise her with a bouquet of flowers, and make her suspicious with a gold bracelet.

You can do what you decide to do — but you cannot decide what you will decide to do.

There's no happy ending to cocaine. You either die, you go to jail, or else you run out.

How can we be “free” as conscious agents if everything that we consciously intend is caused by events in our brain that we do not intend and of which we are entirely unaware? We can’t.

It’s been too hard living, but I’m afraid to die. ‘Cause I don’t know what’s up there, beyond the sky.

If anyone tells you he is never afraid, he is a liar or he is a Gurkha.

There are two questions a man must ask himself: The first is 'Where am I going?' and the second is 'Who will go with me?' If you ever get these questions in the wrong order you are in trouble.

Most people are brought to faith in Christ not by argument for it but by exposure to it.

No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.

There is nothing in the Constitution that authorizes or makes it the official duty of a president to have anything to do with criminal activities.

Obviously I'm not a role model for impressionable youth.

I was single-minded on what I wanted to do since I was like nine or ten.

There will be no withdrawal without written orders and these orders shall never be issued.

There are only four things in life that matter. The first is happiness and I'll sell you the other three for a dollar.

Tolerate nothing in your life that might diminish your hunger for Gods word. Apply it w vigor & spiritual energy!

There been times when I thought I couldn't last for long But now I think I'm able to carry on It's been a long, been a long time coming But I know a change is gonna come, oh yes it will

Of all the hazards, fear is the worst.

Texas can make it without the United States, but the United States cannot make it without Texas

I didn't become successful until I became myself

You don't get anything worth getting, by pretending to know things you don't know.

Every generation has someone who steps outside the norm and offers a voice for the unspeakable attitudes of that time. I represent everything that's supposed to be wrong, everything that's forbidden.

Listen, you make a big movie, you're going into the Coliseum, and people are going to give you the thumbs up or the thumbs down. And that's part of the game. It's part of the fun as well.

Control your expenses better than your competition. This is where you can always find the competitive advantage.

I therefore believe that our system does not have a word for failed trial, and that is where the American public does not realize that our criminal justice system sometimes makes mistakes.

It's funny, in a way the actor is a writer. It's not like the two things are so separate as to be like apples and oranges. The writer and the actor are one.

If you don't listen to your customers, someone else will.

There is an old saying: if a man comes home with sand in his cuffs and cockleburs in his pants, don't ask him what he shot.

Don't you think I would be a worthy replacement for you, Madam Prime Minister? You have a long nose. So have I. But I don't poke my nose into other people's affairs.

A man commented to his lunch companion: My wife had a funny dream last night. She dreamed she'd married a millionaire. You're lucky, sighed the companion. My wife dreams that in the daytime.

No matter what you choose, build stuff and be around smart people.

Yeah, Dundee was great. It was a great film. I fell in love with my Mexican wife on Dundee.

I seize all opportunities with two hands. Everything that's happened to me has taught me to live in the moment as much as possible.

You can bluff the good players, but not the bad players. Against the bad players, you have to have a hand.

If I had to single out one element in my life that has made a difference for me, it would be a passion to compete.

I've always heard people's criticisms twice as loudly as their praise.

Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one.

Painting is about the beauty of space and the power of containment.

I have to prove myself in a lot of ways - as an actor, as a person, as someone who can handle pressure.

The President seems to extend executive privilege way out past the atmosphere. What he says is executive privilege is nothing but executive poppycock.

Let me live in a house by the side of the road and be a friend to man.

The question is not do you take money out of stocks and put it into real estate, or the reverse. There's so much money out there looking for a home. I don't think it's either/or.

It occurred to me that there wouldn't be world hunger, if you people would MOVE WHERE THE FOOD IS!!!