Niemand kann vor der Stimme seines Herzens fliehen. Deshalb ist es besser, darauf zu hören.

Erst die Möglichkeit, einen Traum zu verwirklichen, macht unser Leben lebenswert.

Denn alle Menschen haben immer genaue Vorstellungen davon, wie wir unser Leben am besten zu leben haben. Doch nie wissen sie selber, wie sie ihr eigenes Leben am besten anpacken sollen.

Plötzlich erkannte er, dass er die Welt entweder mit den Augen eines armen, beraubten Opfers sehen konnte oder aber als Abenteurer, auf der Suche nach einem Schatz.

Erinnere dich immer an das, was du erreichen willst.

Gib nie deine Träume auf, folge den Zeichen.

Je näher man an seinen Traum herankommt, um so mehr wird der persönliche Lebensweg zum eigentlichen Lebensziel.

Niemand muss das Unbekannte fürchten, weil jeder Mensch das erreichen kann, was er will und was er braucht.

Nur die Ausdauernden, nur diejenigen, die viel nachforschen, vollenden das große Werk.

Jeder lernt auf seine Weise. Seine Art ist nicht die meine und meine Art ist nicht die seine. Aber beide suchen wir unseren Lebensweg und deshalb achte ich ihn.

Ich lebe weder in der Vergangenheit noch in der Zukunft. Ich habe nur die Gegenwart und mir diese interessiert mich. Wenn du immer in der Gegenwart leben kannst, dann bist du ein glücklicher Mensch.

Probiere es aus.

Jeder einzelne Tag trägt die Ewigkeit in sich.

Jeder Tag ist dazu da, um gelebt zu werden oder um an ihm die Welt zu verlassen.

Es gibt nur eine Möglichkeit zu lernen und das ist durch Handeln.

Die Angst vorm Leiden ist schlimmer als das eigentliche Leid.

Life is simply the reification of the process of living.

My second novel began after my family moved from New York City to North Carolina, and I watched my son walk into kindergarten at a school in which he was the only Jewish child out of 600 students - and this in the middle of the Bible Belt.

My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.

Being a good leader today doesnt mean youll be a good leader 10 years from now. You have to adapt to the times.

People after death become complete again. The blind can see, the deaf can hear, cripples are no longer crippled after all their vital signs have ceased to exist.

For me, cooking is a way to try and please people and tell them I love them. When I fall in love with someone, I want to feed them as well.

The job of the government isn't to go around and try and make people sacrifice, it's to try and make people free. The reason why we have a national defense is to protect our freedoms.

The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.

I became much happier when I realized I shouldn't depend solely on my career for my sense of self. So I developed other interests and surrounded myself with a small group of friends I could trust.

An old friend of mine, an economist by trade, once explained to me that the statistical definition of 'dilemma' is 49.9% in favor and 50.1% against. If the gap is greater, there is no dilemma, because the answer is clear.

I love being at home, having friends over.

We are all of us stars and we deresrve to twinkle.

You can't go to medical school and come out and be like, 'I'm going to be a dog catcher.' That would be so pointless.

In journalism, as in politics, other people's lives are a currency to be bartered on behalf of notoriety and influence.

It has to have a payroll tax that's dedicated to Social Security. The Social Security tax has been very successful over the years in raising almost all of our elderly citizens out of poverty.

I am all about health... and to me, size is not what defines your health.

Obama's IRS is not the IRS I've ever known for over seventy years as an American citizen.

Faith came by just believing God's word and taking Him up on His word.

Skateboarding has given me everything I have and created who I am.

I think that I'm serious, but I don't think that I'm inordinately bleak.

The only projects that excite me have to be tied to some aspect of social change. No matter how beautiful, a coffee book doesn't exactly move you to change the way you cook or eat.

First novels tend to be blood-lettings, and they're focused on you, not the reader.

All too frequently, the knee jerk reaction to tragedies by the media and chattering class is to move to restrict our rights... Our founding documents make it clear that our inalienable rights come from God and that the job of the government is to ensure and protect those God-given rights.

You know that a lot of people go to emergency rooms when they don't really need to.