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

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.

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.

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

Die Angst vorm Leiden ist schlimmer als das eigentliche Leid.

The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.

We said, there's another second gone, there's another minute and another hour and another day, when, as a matter of fact the second or the minute or the hour was never gone. It was the same one all the time. It had just moved along and we had moved with it.

It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.

I decide immediately if I like a person and if I do, then I'm myself, and if I don't, then I give nothing.

I don't know - I don't listen to the radio that much. I really am an old-soul kind of girl.

Damn the sword! When Virginia wanted a sword, I gave her one. Now she sends me a toy! I require bread!

Everyone feels like family and I am back in the city that I love.

For us as entertainers traveling, the schedule gets really crazy - flying all the time, being on a bus tour, changing hotels every day. And it's challenging.

There will always be non-readers, bad readers, lazy readers - there always were.

Right now, if you're a talented developer or designer, government is what you go into if you can't get a better job.

Every day of our lives, we are on the verge of making those slight changes that would make all the difference.

I don't listen to anybody's full record anymore and when I did, I don't think I listened to the whole record. I'm sorry, and I don't care who it is, if it's the Beatles, I can't listen to an hour and a half of anybody straight so I guess that's just my personal preference.

I'm not a guy who takes films for strong political messages.

Quantum physics is one of the hardest things to understand intuitively, because essentially the whole point is that our classical picture is wrong.

Cartoons are like fruit flies. Biologists use fruit flies because their large chromosomes and short life cycle make them ideal for studying hereditary changes.

It could be that people just want to be connected to something that's bigger than they are that can't be proven. I don't know, I don't think that's it.

If you look for the bad in people expecting to find it, you surely will.

Once when I went over my work with my Washington University professor, the late great Stanley Elkin, he pointed to a passage of mine and said: 'Stop vamping.' It has remained a caution.

Fake people will hang around as long as you let them. So dont. Cut back on their time and spend it with your real friends

It would be impossible to estimate how much time and energy we invest in trying to fix, change and deny our emotions - especially the ones that shake us at our very core, like hurt, jealousy, loneliness, shame, rage and grief.

We can make a commitment to promote vegetables and fruits and whole grains on every part of every menu. We can make portion sizes smaller and emphasize quality over quantity. And we can help create a culture - imagine this - where our kids ask for healthy options instead of resisting them.

The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.

I have many friends who had kids solo, who adopted, who used surrogates - no one was judging them - it's a new world!

The justice of our cause must be reflected in the manner in which we rectify the crimes of the past.