Im Grunde braucht man keine Angst davor zu haben, alleine zu sein. Die Welt ist voller Begegnungen und lebenden Bereicherungen, die man oft nicht wirklich wahrnimmt.

Der Unterschied zwischen Einsamkeit und Alleinsein ist gravierend.

Manchmal ist das Glück, nach dem man sein Leben lang sucht, direkt vor seiner Haustür. Mit offenen Augen und achtsam durchs Leben zu gehen, kann einen bereichern und das geben, wonach man sich sehnt.

Die Sympathie und die Zuneigung, die man im Alltag empfängt, dürfen nie zur Selbstverständlichkeit werden. Man erkennt die schönen Dinge im Leben bekanntlich erst, wenn man sie vermisst.

Man sollte ich öfter mit dem zufrieden geben, was man hat, anstatt sich nach existenzlosen Dingen zu sehnen, die einen dies vergessen lassen.

Der Mensch neigt oft dazu, zu glauben, dass ihm nur in Träumen richtig warm wird. Deshalb träumt er gerne. Doch die Realität hält meist nicht, was die Fantasie verspricht.

Allein zu sein ist nicht so schlimm, wie die Angst davor einsam zu sein.

The aim of being a good designer is to have an influence. If you design furniture or lifestyle, you should influence the way people evolve globally. It's good to have an influence.

Don't ever give up on your dreams because YOU have the ability to make them come true.

Lucy was lovely.

How do you live a long life? Take a two mile walk every morning before breakfast.

When I go into making a movie, personally, I don't try to bring other pieces of movies with me.

Experience proves that none is so cruel as the disillusioned sentimentalist.

I don't watch anything of mine much. I haven't gone to drama school, or college, either. I just like to watch other actors in action. I learned so much from working with De Niro. I'd be in a scene with him where I was supposed to be acting, and I was just watching.

I have nothing against younger women and older men on screen. What is sad is that so many women over 40 who have so much to give aren't being considered to play opposite men their own age or younger.

My chosen occupation isn't necessarily movie star; I see my chosen occupation as actor.

I think the reason why we were able to actually get it made was that we were so extremely naive - we had no experience at all here. We didn't even know that you were supposed to have an agent. We didn't even have a lawyer. We didn't know one soul.

At least through most of the 1960s, I basically lived in a man's world, hardly speaking to a woman all day except to the secretaries. But I was almost totally unaware of myself as an oddity and had no comprehension of the difficulties faced by working women in our organization and elsewhere.

Hope is the most universal of human possessions.

One of my biggest pet peeves is when a guy's wearing flip-flop sandals, which I don't understand. Men's feet are disgusting to begin with, but now they're on display when I try to go out for a nice steak at a restaurant, and I have to sit there and look at some guy's hoof? I don't get it. I don't understand it.

Little movements of communities of ordinary radicals are committed to doing small things with great love.

Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.

When you arrive at a fork in the road, take it.

Humanity's true moral test, its fundamental test consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals.

When I'm away from the field, I show a little more emotion and stuff.

I make myself pizza if it comes down to that drastic measurement.

I'm still a member of the Empire! Although I sometimes feel like an American with a British accent - you get contaminated after so long.

It is a rare expert who clearly realizes how inexpert someone else can be.

I love being single. I can come and go as I please and stay out late as I want to.

I'm a believer in home-made recipes and concoctions, so I stick to natural or herbal products as much as I can. I also meditate regularly to de-stress.

If America is a nation of laws as we proclaim, then our immigration laws are part of the package.