Sei gut zu dir selbst: Immer. Besonders bei Misserfolgen. Besonders in Krisen. Besonders, wenn du ein geringes Selbstwertgefühl hast. Aber eigentlich im Grunde einfach IMMER! Du bist ein Freund, kein Feind. Vergiss das nie.

Fokussiere auf das Positive: Was ist heute gut gelaufen? Was habe ich schon alles erreicht? Was kann ich gut? Was an unserer Beziehung ist schön?

Folge deiner Freude: Unternimm Dinge, die dich glücklich machen. Wähle einen Beruf, der dir Freude bereitet. Mach Aktivitäten, die du schon als Kind gerne gemacht hast.

Hol dir Hilfe: Wenn du nicht weiterweißt. Wenn du nicht mehr kannst. Wenn du den Weg nicht allein gehen willst. Es ist ein Zeichen von Stärke, Unterstützung zu holen!

Hinterfrage negative Gedanken: "Bin ich wirklich so ein Totalausfall?" "Haben die wirklich über mich gelacht?" Welche andere Erklärung ist möglich? Welche Gegenbeweise habe ich? Was würden andere darüber denken? ProTipp: Denke den Gedanken in einer anderen Sprache!

Lebe deine Stärken: Suche dir ein Umfeld und eine Tätigkeit, in der du deine Stärken zum Einsatz bringen kannst (und nicht ständig versuchst deine Makel zu kaschieren). Wir blühen auf, wenn wir tun können, was uns liegt und worin wir wirklich gut sind.

Genieße häufiger: Und zwar nicht nur nach getaner Arbeit. Genuss verschafft unmittelbar positive Gefühle: Im Vorfeld (= Vorfreude), währenddessen und im Nachhinein (= Schwelgen in positiven Erinnerungen).

Nimm deine Gefühle an: Sie arbeiten nicht gegen, sondern für dich. Sie weisen dich darauf hin, dass ein Bedürfnis verletzt wurde (z.B. Ärger über ungerecht Behandlung) oder dass etwas für dich Bedeutung hat (z.B. Trauer über eine verlorene Freundschaft).

Sorge für Ausgleich: Auf Anspannung sollte Entspannung folgen. Meditation, Malen, Singen, Spielen, Spazierengehen, Sportmachen, Träumen und Gärtnern sind alles wunderbare Wege, um Stresshormone abzubauen und neue Energie zu tanken.

Komm ins Hier und Jetzt: Denn hier findet das eigentliche Leben statt. Und das ist erstaunlicherweise auch der Zeitpunkt, in dem wir die wenigsten Probleme haben (weil die vergangenen Probleme schon hinter uns liegen und die meisten Sorgen eh nie eintreten).

A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go.

Charity begins at home.

The most famous Obama precept is, 'No drama.'

As a prisoner of conscience committed to peaceful transition to democracy, I urge Europe to apply economic sanctions against Ethiopia. What short-term pain may result will be compensated by long-term gain. A pledge to re-engage energetically with a democratic Ethiopia would act as a catalyst for reform.

I smoke, isn't that terrible?

There are no atheists in foxholes, they say, and I was a foxhole atheist for a long time. But after going through a midlife crisis and having many things change very quickly, it made me realize my mortality. And when you start to think about death, you start to think about what's after it. And then you start hoping there is a God.

Money is always eager and ready to work for anyone who is ready to employ it.

Whatever's going on with me at the time of writing is going to find its way into the piece. If that doesn't happen, then what the hell am I doing? So if I'm writing 'Inglourious Basterds,' and I'm in love with a girl and we break up, that's going to find its way into the piece.

Once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else is good enough.

Who's going to ask a painter to see a diploma? They'd say, 'Can I see your paintings?', wouldn't they?

My parents were willing to let me follow my nose, do what I wanted to do, and they supported my interest by buying the books that I wanted for birthdays and Christmas, almost always poetry books.

I've won many awards and I want more. If you want to call it hunger then I'm hungry for awards.

The fundamental problem for Republicans when it comes to the environment is that whatever you say is viewed through the prism of suspicion.

I grew up very much an athlete and very much a swimmer and a dancer and a horse rider and surf lifesaving club, you name it I've probably done it. I just find so much gratification in being physical.

The Maldives, a string of islands off the coast of India whose highest point above sea level is eight feet, may be the first nation to drown. In Alaska, entire towns have begun to shift in the loosening permafrost.

If you become president, you're guaranteed to develop some nervous habit.

My dad would always tell me, 'When you meet a man, look him in his eye and shake his hand,' and that's just something I've been doing for a long time.

I grew up in a big Irish, Catholic family. My dad was a pretty rough guy. So one of my brothers left home when he was 15 and found his way to the gym. It gave me the opportunity to go and spend some time with him and work out in the gym.

The real challenge in this line of work is being able to weed the productive ones from the chaff, to decide which you're going to spend the next six to nine months turning into something that people will pay for.

It's just a great, legendary comic book hero and it's one that has never been kind of been brought back to life after Lynda Carter. I mean, it's a reinvention. When Tim Burton reinvented Batman after Adam West, and when Donner reinvented Superman after George Reeves, it's time to do that with Wonder Woman.

Some people use stand-up to get something else in their careers, but it's truly the art form of stand-up I love.

Graduation is not the end but the beginning of our bigger life and bigger challenges in life to face.

When I decided to take writing seriously, I did a lot of reading and analyzing of the books I liked, and came up with what I thought were pretty sound plotting and structure basics.

I learned early on not to feel badly about reaching out for help, and not to feel embarrassed about saying that you're in over your head.