Um in einer Tiefphase sein Selbstwertgefühl wieder zu steigern, notiert man sich circa fünf seiner Stärken, sucht sich eine aus und schreibt einen kurzen Text über sich und die jeweilige Stärke.

Studien zufolge tut soziale Abweisung genauso weh wie physischer Schmerz. Das hat evolutionäre Gründe, da dies damals ein Warnsignal dafür war, dass sich der Stamm bald von einem abgrenzen könnte.

Es ist effektiver, zu überlegen, was man beim nächsten Mal besser machen kann, als sich ständig seine vergangenen Fehler vorzuwerfen.

Bei einer Trennung, einer Kündigung oder Ähnlichem sollte man die Fehler nicht ausschließlich bei sich selbst suchen. Meistens liegt es daran, dass die Chemie einfach nicht stimmt.

Fühlt man sich ausgegrenzt, sollte man einfach etwas mit anderen Leuten unternehmen, die die Anwesenheit von einem zu schätzen wissen. So erinnert man sich daran, dass man nicht weniger wert ist, nur weil man nicht eingeladen worden ist.

"Der größte Schaden, den Abweisung verursacht ist meist selbstverschuldet. Gerade wenn unser Selbstbewusstsein seinen Tiefpunkt erreicht, kommen wir und schädigen es noch mehr."

I wasn't born a fool. It took work to get this way.

My roommate and my boyfriend, they both know I am compulsive and controlling.

I grew up in the 1960s in Memphis, and my father was a member of the American Civil Liberties Union. I was born three years before Martin Luther King was killed, and I think that history of civil action was something that I had in my blood.

I thought we were gonna open up the world of poetry and music to all kinds of things, and yet, I can't really think of anyone who's done anything like it since.

I have to satisfy my audience.

The main thing that gives me hope is the media. We have radio, TV, magazines, and books, so we have the possibility of learning from societies that are remote from us, like Somalia. We turn on the TV and see what blew up in Iraq or we see conditions in Afghanistan.

I think it's often discussed that leaving the Euro is an option for Greece. I think this is really not an option.

When I work on my own stuff - and I think this is true for anybody - but when you work on something that you just completely own, you are trying to stay as true to your own storytelling voice as you can.

War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.

We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.

I suppose the only thing at 50 you can really start to look forward to is just total irresponsibility. As you get older, you can just sit in a chair, wear anything you want, you know you can walk down; old people dress cool. You know they wear sweatpants. The elderly have it down.

I was reared on folk music.

I've never been good with deadlines. My early novels, I wrote by myself. No one knew I was writing a novel; I didn't have a contract.

My dreams kind of came through when I went to see the cinema.

But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to investigate what implicit theory is involved in his statements.

There is nothing more dreadful than having to go walking on ones own on Monday.

Latino people have come up to me and said they were motivated to become a lawyer because they saw me play one on TV - and you can't discount how great it is when they tell me I was the first.

Its inevitable your environment will influence what you do.

Of course my family and friends are incredibly valuable to me. They keep me sane, they teach me things and I love spending time with them. I think that ranking what you value is a sort of western and linear way of looking at things.

The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.

I worked 18 years to become an overnight success. Now MagicPlace.com will short circuit that process for people.

Every living soul among the Latter-day Saints that fasts two meals once a month will be benefited spiritually and be built up in the faith of the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ - benefited spiritually in a wonderful way - and sufficient means will be in the hands of the bishops to take care of all the poor.

Guantanamo Bay is a facility that I think should be utilized by the United States for detainees, say, out of Syria.

I remember hearing stories from my mother and father about their parents and grandparents when they were taken off the reservation, taken to the boarding schools, and pretty much taught to be ashamed of who they were as Native Americans. You can feel that impact today.