American Gods

"You have to believe in something, even if that something is yourself."

"Sometimes the journey matters more than the destination."

"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance, and eternal vigilance is boring."

"The road less traveled is less traveled for a reason."

"You cannot kill an idea whose time has come."

"The best way to survive is to remember where you come from."

"This is American. You work hard, you follow the rules, and then someone takes it all away."

"You become what you believe you are."

"The only way out is through. You understand that?"

"America doesn't believe in the old things anymore, so the old things are dying."

"You find out what you're made of when you're tested, when everything is taken away."

"The secret to surviving in America is to move around. Never stay in one place long enough for them to find you."

"Bury me standing up. I've been on my knees long enough."

"You're not a god. You're just a man who believes he's a god."

"People believe in all sorts of things that contradict each other. That's the beauty of it."

"That's the thing about America. It's the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between."

"Belief is the old magic. There are those who believe and those who do not believe, and their belief shapes the world."

"You're an American. You've got the greatest responsibility in the world: to go home and to think of us sometimes."

"I can believe things that are true and things that aren't true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they're true or not."

"Survival is the greatest adventure."

"The old gods never really die. They just become something else."

"The gods of the new world have no faces, but they're always watching."

"You sacrifice what you must to survive."

"You can't go home again, because home has changed while you were away."

"Nothing is free. Everything has a price. Sometimes it's just not paid in money."

"The trick is to keep moving forward, even when you don't know where you're going."

"You are stronger than you know. But strength alone won't save you."

"The dead have their own roads, and we shouldn't follow them lightly."

"A god without believers is just a story nobody's telling anymore."

"What makes something real? Belief. Acknowledgment. Recognition."