Auf einem Zahlenstrahl von 1 bis 100 - wie wichtig ist das wirklich?

Wer seinem inneren Kompass folgt, kommt auch mit geschlossenen Augen ans Ziel.

Bevor wir eine Entscheidung treffen, sollten wir in uns hineinhorchen und uns fragen “Was will ich wirklich?”.

Dinge, die rational betrachtet vielleicht vernünftig erscheinen, müssen sich noch lange nicht gut anfühlen. Aber genau darauf kommt es an.

Was würde passieren, wenn wir ganz offen über unsere Gedanken und Gefühle sprechen würden?

Wenn wir Entscheidungen treffen, die sich nicht gut anfühlen, sind diese nicht unumstößlich. Wir haben immer noch die Chance nachzujustieren.

Wir denken selten an das, was wir haben, aber oft an das, was uns fehlt.

Wie oft ärgern wir uns über unwichtige Kleinigkeiten, ohne in diesen Momenten zu sehen, dass das große Ganze stimmt.

Was brauche ich wirklich?

Es ist nicht Luxus, der uns glücklich macht, sondern das Gefühl von sozialer Sicherheit. Ist eine gute finanzielle Basis vorhanden, wiegen Werte wie Liebe, Gesundheit und Selbstbestimmtheit viel mehr.

Wir haben zu viel von dem, was wir nicht brauchen und zu wenig von dem, was wirklich wichtig ist.

Würde ich so weiterleben wollen wie im Moment, wenn ich wüsste, dass ich in einem Jahr sterben muss?

Die Arbeit läuft dir nicht davon, während du deinen Kindern den Regenbogen zeigst, aber der Regenbogen wartet nicht, bis du mit der Arbeit fertig bist.

Meist ist es nicht die eine große Sache, die alles verändert, sondern die vielen kleinen Dinge. Eine positive Veränderung stößt die nächste an.

Was würdest du heute an deinem Leben ändern, wenn du wüsstest, dass du in einem Jahr sterben musst?

When you play piano, your left hand and right hand are synced. Your brain basically has a clock, so that the right hand knows that 0.3 seconds after I hit this key, I need to hit that one. And the right hand knows not to hit keys that the left hand is playing, so the hands do not collide.

I'm makin' a lotta dough, everyone knows who you are, and who the hell cares whether you're typecast or not? Also, there's something wrong with complaining about being typecast in something you really enjoy doing.

Gays and lesbians are sick people. It's definitely a disease. They haven't invented a cure for it yet, but I hope they will.

I think a guy who's had just the right amount of booze can sing the blues a hell of a lot better than a guy who is stone sober.

There's a sense of urgency in understanding that your body is not really your own. We can control it to a certain extent through habits and good behavior, but there's so much we don't have control of.

Every person with a disability is an individual.

I love you more than a fat kid loves cake.

I think the founding fathers believed religion shouldn't interact directly with government.

I always have melodies flowing in my head - whether I'm just at home, at the mall, at a restaurant or wherever. I'm always humming along to the random melodies that form in my head. My friends always ask me, 'What are you singing?' and I'll be like, 'I don't know!'

I haven't seen or spoken to Ray Collins in at least 10 years so I don't even know if he's alive. I hope so.

Were there no uniforms, there would probably be no armies.

Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling.

Establishing mood through pictorial means is the director Ridley Scott's most notable talent. There may be no working director more accomplished at wringing texture out of the color blue than the prodigious and now prolific Mr. Scott; you'd swear that with his dazzling washes of blues and sand tones, he was inventing additional hues on the spot.

If I knew I couldn't win races, I would have stayed in the States.

Mayors could never get away with the kind of nonsense that goes on in Washington. In our world, you either picked up the trash or you didn't. You either moved an abandoned car or you didn't. You either filled a pothole or you didn't. That's what we do every day. And we know how to get this stuff done.

The family has a social function and so it should be sustained.

I think that's what it's all about; you work hard and practice to play on the big courts.

I got to talking to an old actor, and he had a bunch of stories about the Rough Riders.

I mean, there's plenty of artists who are making R&B music, but because of their ethnicity, it's considered something else.

Social equity is based on justice; politics change on the opinion of the time. The black man's skin will be a mark of social inferiority so long as white men are conceited, ignorant, unjust, and prejudiced. You cannot legislate these qualities out of the white - you must steal them out by teaching, illustration, and example.

The only difference between men and women in science is that the women have the babies. This makes it more difficult for women in science but should not be seen as a barrier, for it is merely another challenge to be overcome.

Self evidently dangerous climate change will not emerge from a normal scientific process of truth seeking.

I'm a goodhearted person. I interact with people all the time.

You actually don't want people thinking your product is cool, because then you're a fad.