Die Desktruktivität der Gesellschaft mit ihren verkehrten Ansichtsweisen und Werten sind nun ein Teil von uns,doch heißt das nicht dass man sich ihr unterwerfen muss.Vielmehr braucht sie Liebe und Verständnis um Veränderung zu bewirken.

Wahre Bildung erlangt man nicht durch Wissen,sondern durch Verständnis.

Missverständnisse muss man zuerst erkennen bevor man sie überwinden kann.

Das Lösen eines Problems zwischen zwei Individuen benötigt eine gewisse Kompromissbereitschaft beiderseits.

Ein Kompromiss zu erzielen erscheint oftmals als nicht möglich aufgrund fehlender Emphatie.

Emphatie ist nur ein kleiner Teil dessen was benötigt wird wenn man seinen Gegenüber verstehen will.

Die Gesellschaft verlangt unhinterfragende Gefolgsleute.

Wie passt man sich an ohne seine Freiheit aufzugeben und dennoch akzeptiert zu werden?

Inwiefern kann man tatsächlich frei sein,in einer Welt voller Normen und Regeln?

Meine Freiheit dass zu tun was ich möchte könnte eine Einschränkung der Freiheit andere Menschen sein.

Wieso schränken wir uns gegenseitig in unserer Entfaltung ein?

Wir hinterfragen nicht mehr sondern meinen zu wissen und nehmen es hin.

Astrology is like any other superstition: It has no power unless people allow it to direct their lives.

Sometimes integrity is a punch in the face.

I always thought that I would spend the first half of my life making money so I can spend the second half of my life giving it all away. And one of the defining moments of my life was when I realized that I could do both at the same time with TOMS.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?

Being varied is something I do instinctively and naturally. I feel a tremendous sense of accomplishment.

If the goal is to get the best artists, actors, and filmmakers in the world to create the best movies, Hollywood does a decent job. And I think no one would disagree with me that it also makes a ton of bad movies and employs a bunch of hacks.

The pressure used to wear on me. I was on Twitter a couple years ago, and I couldn't handle it all that well. Don't get me wrong, because 90% of the feedback you get is fantastic.

I don't have birthdays.

The knowledge that there is a part of the psychic functions that are out of conscious reach, we did not need to wait for Freud to know this!

Our society has lost confidence in the power of reason, except perhaps scientific reason.

I had a bike as a kid, and when I worked in Manhattan - I had a 10-speed - I rode from downtown to 68th and Madison for my day job. I knew about fighting traffic, but nothing about racing.

I'm new to the Twitterverse and so I'm attempting to build my followers. I'm trying to be a better tweeter. I try not to tweet too much, just when I've got something worthwhile to say.

Technique! The very word is like a shriek of outraged Art. It is the idiot name given to effort by those who are too weak, too weary, or too dull to play the game. The mighty have no theory of technique.

I think that, back in the day, there used to be a lot of horror films that kind of had a checklist of what went into making the 'perfect horror film', and I think now people are raising the bar in the industry, as far as the types of horror films that are being made.

I want people to love to sit in my chairs. You gotta want the people to buy it because they love it.

The cardinal sin in sports, what could really wreck it, is not cheating to win, which has gone on forever, but cheating to lose. That threatens a fundamental aspect of sports' appeal, which is their spontaneity. If games are fixed, they're no different from movies; they're scripted.

All laws are an attempt to domesticate the natural ferocity of the species.

Anne and I have now been married almost 32 years, and I am the luckiest husband in the world.

You're gonna meet tons of different people throughout your life, and it's totally worth it to stick your neck out a little bit if you like someone. Even when you get shot down, it seems really devastating, but it's not in the long run.

Over time grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.

In normal times, laid-off workers are unemployed an average of eight weeks.

I think with every writer there are two people there.

Gentlemen, I fervently trust that before long the principle of arbitration may win such confidence as to justify its extension to a wider field of international differences.