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

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.

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.

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.

I got Ice Cube his start. I also launched Eazy-E.

One must turn the tongue seven times in the mouth before speaking.

I knew the second I met you that there was something about you I needed. Turns out it wasnt something about you at all. It was just you.

The sport would not survive today if drivers were being killed at the rate they were in the 1960s and '70s. It would have been taken off the air. It is beamed into people's living rooms on Sunday afternoons, with children watching.

Raphael Saadiq said to me, quite often, that Chuck D was his history teacher. And so he got a lot from the music, things that he wasn't getting maybe in school. And I feel the same way with regards to Earth, Wind & Fire, Stevie Wonder.

I certainly don't like to play a bad guy. There are no bad people. It's only shades of grey. Also, I am not a great actor who can transform completely into a totally different character for a movie. I am not a trained actor.

I just sit at the drawing board most of the time. I am used to talking to people. I love going to conventions, getting feedback and talking to people. Some artists don't. Some artists sit at their drawing board because their personality actually dictates that.

Take care of the earth and she will take care of you.

I know some people say I can be funny. But there is always a deeper meaning to what I say. I am a socialist at heart and have the interests of the poor in mind. When people see how I manage to work my way out of tough situations, it gives them hope in their own life.

Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.

I probably have fundamentally antisocial tendencies. I never took one extracurricular activity. I just failed utterly at that level. Part of me still rebels against that.

It is dreadful to see actors reproducing the same image constantly.

The epic poet has behind him a tradition of matter and a tradition of style; and that is what every other poet has behind him too; only, for the epic poet, tradition is rather narrower, rather more strictly compelling.

What is a home without children? Quiet.

I try to keep myself as sane and as grounded as possible by surrounding myself with normal people, such as all the friends that I've had from when I was little.

I believe so, but at first he must know. He must know in which spirit Beethoven has composed this piece. He must try to study that. And he must find out in which station of life of Beethoven he did.

Anyone who doesn't have a great time in San Francisco is pretty much dead to me.

The most important pathological effects of pollution are extremely delayed and indirect.

Change is the only constant, whether it's in music, culture, dance or fashion.

I've always been really curious about the limits of human capability.

We were very old-fashioned. My preacher at church told me I could not go in to the movies because it would make me a 'wanton woman.'

Those who say theory and practice are two unrelated realms are fools in one and scoundrels in the other.

I been a long time leaving but I'm going to be a long time gone.

Simple genome engineering of bacteria and yeast is just the beginning of the rise of the true biohackers. This is a community of several thousand people, with skill sets ranging from self-taught software hackers to biology postdocs who are impatient with the structure of traditional institutional lab work.