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.

Der Unterschied zwischen Einsamkeit und Alleinsein ist gravierend.

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.

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.

A husband is like a fire - he goes out when unattended.

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game whether you are a winner or a loser.

Every time a young girl comes in and asks me for advice, if you start your conversation with, 'How hard is it as a black woman,' or, 'How hard is it as a woman,' I turn you around. Because I cannot - we cannot look at the roadblocks and see the road at the same time.

Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.

Being an Olympian is the ultimate test of one's sporting ability.

A lot of people think jugglers defy gravity or do stuff. Well, I kind of, from my childhood and golf and all that, it's a process of joining with forces.

My childhood was as heavily gendered as any you would find in a working-class household in Lincolnshire.

I can look back now and say, 'Aw, that was a little dumb taking huge bumps onto concrete before a couple of hundred fans,' but if it wasn't for that attitude and that type of work ethic, I never would have gotten to WWE.

I really love doing what I do, being an actor. It's the greatest. You can do it until you die.

I love Queen Latifah! Queen Latifah is so beautiful! Every time you see her, if it's in a cosmetics ad, or on the red carpet, she's always flawless.

You dont get anything clean without getting something else dirty.

They'll say, That's funny, but you can't do that on TV.

By the time I turned 12, I was a 5-foot 10-inch social disaster. Towering over my friends was the bane of my adolescence.

Prison has a universal fascination. Its a real life horror story because given the right set of circumstances anyone could find themselves behind bars.

Thanksgiving is a season that is very much in accord with the themes and teachings of Jesus Christ.

Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand

I learned so much by being an actor, and part of my sort-of development as a writer is big thanks to the scripts I read in my acting life.

Violence is an evil thing but when the guns are all in the hands of the men without respect for human rights then men are really in trouble.

When Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed the same-sex marriage bill, my blood was boiling. I had been silent, but that night, Brad and I watched the news and saw all these young people pouring out on Santa Monica Boulevard venting their rage, and I said, 'I have to speak out.'

I remember finding a Houdini book at the library and seeing an image of him chained on the side of a building. He looked so intense and scary, and I couldn't get that image out of my head. That started building up my love of magic.

I like jewelry. Big rings, big necklaces. Shoes, belts, luggage.

Reflection increases the vigor of the mind, as exercise does the strength of the body.

No one who set out to design a form of communication would ever end up with anything like English, Mandarin, or any of the more than six thousand languages spoken today.

It's absolutely critical that we not only provide support from cradle to career in the education system but also the wraparound services.