Oft, wenn die Dinge ungeplant und unerwartet geschehen, sind sie am Ende angenehmer und chancenreicher.

Wir können nicht wählen, was mit uns geschieht, aber wir können wählen, wie wir damit umgehen.

Der schlimmste Mord ist der, der an unserer Lebensfreude begangen wird.

... weil wir immer auf der Suche nach etwas Besserem sind und so die Chance unseres Lebens verpassen.

Wer sagen will: "Ich habe endlich die Liebe meines Lebens gefunden.", darf keine Angst davor haben, allein in einem Altersheim zu enden.

Wir können nicht einfach die Lichter, die unseren Weg beleuchten, an uns nehmen und davontragen. Tun wir dies, tragen wir zwar viel Licht in unserem Gepäck, doch niemand wird uns auf unserem Weg folgen und Gesellschaft leisten können.

Heute ist der erste Tag vom Rest deines Lebens.

Ein einfacher Traum ist mächtiger als tausend Wirklichkeiten.

Jeder Traum braucht einen Träumer.

Der Traum ist etwas Spontanes und daher gefährlich für jene, die nicht den Mut haben zu träumen.

Wenn man anderen Menschen nicht vertraut, hat man nur eine einzige Option - jemand zu werden, der immer in der Defensive lebt, nicht liebt, keine Entscheidungen treffen kann, immer den anderen die Schuld dafür gibt, wenn etwas schief läuft.

Wer Selbstvertrauen hat, vertraut auch anderen. Weil er weiß, dass er, wenn er verraten werden sollte, selbstbewusst damit umgehen kann.

Ein Teil dessen, was das Leben lebenswert macht, ist genau das: Risiken eingehen.

Riskiere jetzt etwas, solange du gesund bist und den Mut dazu hast.

Leben bedeutet Anpassung.

Allein der Umstand, Kritik an sich heranzulassen, gab dem Kritiker Macht.

Immer wollte sie die anderen übertrumpfen, schaffte es aber nie, über sich selber hinauszuwachsen.

Echte Revolutionäre sind nicht im mindestens daran interessiert, ein Studium abzuschließen und ein Diplom zu erwerben.

Wer aus Liebe handelt, der wird auf allen seinen Wegen einen unsichtbaren, wohlwollenden Schutz genießen und in schwierigen Augenblicken Ruhe bewahren können.

Most people do not have a problem with you thinking for yourself as long as your conclusions are the same as or at least compatible with their beliefs.

All my memories of being in Las Vegas with Bobby were great. Frank Sinatra brought us to the Sands Hotel in 1965. When we worked that lounge, it was a great lounge. I think it was bigger than the showroom. We were two 25-year-old dumb kids from Orange County in Las Vegas with The Rat Pack.

It's one thing to say, 'I don't like what you said to me and I find it rude and offensive,' but the moment you threaten violence in return, you've taken it to another level, where you lose whatever credibility you had.

Sometimes we make the process more complicated than we need to. We will never make a journey of a thousand miles by fretting about how long it will take or how hard it will be. We make the journey by taking each day step by step and then repeating it again and again until we reach our destination.

By association with natures enormities a mans heart may truly grow big also.

All the Disney Princess films are iconic and beautiful, so to have been a part of all that was really a wonderful part of my life. It's all fabulous, too, that I have a daughter that appreciates the whole Princess thing.

You have to listen to what resonates within your own gut. You find your direction there. Your voice comes out.

If there is going to be any meaningful sales, it's going to be through word of mouth and people recommending it to their book club and then a thousand more book clubs do it, and then you get into real sales numbers.

Teenagers want to be able to fight for what's right - but finding out what's right is now 90 percent of the battle.

A lot of things come with fame, whether it's losing friends or losing family.

When you realize you are no longer made of glass, you lose the desire to demonstrate that fragility in others.

In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty.

I think I cry when I'm angry. I let it go that way.

I go to the gym, I swim daily and from time to time I meet with friends and do extra-curricular stuff.

It is idleness that creates impossibilities; and where people don't care to do anything, they shelter themselves under a permission that it cannot be done.

If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers in the first place.

I had an older brother who passed away recently, an older sister and a younger brother.

I was useless at science. I was never going to be an astrophysicist.

Happiness has a bad rap. People say it shouldn't be your goal in life. Oh, yes it should.

Growing up, others girls wanted to dance and help their mums with the cooking. I liked to play soccer with the boys. Or I'd be off on my own, tilting mirrors towards the sun in order to burn armies of ants. That was my idea of fun.

The very thought that a man and a woman are given the gift of love and a lifetime to multiply the good times as well as divide the bad warms the heart.

The art of the clown is more profound than we think. It is the comic mirror of tragedy, and the tragic mirror of comedy.

We've lost touch and allowed technology to take precedence over organic nature. But let's not forget that those microchips in our computers came from elements of the earth.

It may take time but things will get better.