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

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.

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

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

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.

I certainly don't disparage someone whose attitude towards their work is utterly different from mine - that's up to them.

I do hope that our spring will be starting shortly and we will all be able to enjoy some sunshine again.

I think to be 'tough' means you look relaxed. So you have to be tough to win tournaments. But you don't want to be so tough on yourself.

He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.

I think the excitement of movies is discovering stuff you weren't expecting, and I hope to preserve that.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.

I was raised by a very strict, good mother, so I won't be getting out of line anytime soon.

I learned a great lesson early on, even before I was really an actor, from that movie 'Planes, Trains & Automobiles' that John Hughes made: that you could make a movie that's really, really, really, really funny, and sometimes you can still achieve... making the audience feel very deep emotions as well.

For so many years fashion was shrouded in mystery, this glamorous profession that people knew very little about, they thought it was so glamorous. It now has become so available, with the Internet, with shops like H&M and Target that do designer collaborations, so it's more available to everyone and that's created more interest.

Rations were scarcely issued, and the men about preparing supper, when rumors that the enemy had been encountered that day near Gettysburg absorbed every other interest, and very soon orders came to march forthwith to Gettysburg.

Seek the rapids not the calm of the lake. Take the calm to reflect and prepare for the rapids. If we face permanent white water we will see the need for and experience change.

I won $100,000 in Vegas, which buys furniture for my beach house. That takes nerves. You can't think if I'm wrong I'll blow $30,000.

The perfect is the enemy of the good.

'Beloved Renegade' is a meditation on Walt Whitman, on tenderness, on dying.

No matter how many birthdays come and go youll always be my little girl.

When there were just eight teams in each of the big leagues, I was always told, 'It's hard to come up, but it's just hard to stay in the big leagues.' That's because there's always somebody. The Cardinals had so many minor league clubs and had so many good ballplayers.

There is no great sport in having bullets flying about one in every direction, but I find they have less horror when among them than when in anticipation.

We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.

Boyhood like measles is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious.

When I see people laughing at ideas and companies we have backed, I smile. It means we are going to make a lot of money on that investment.

Send a bouquet of your face with the morning breeze.

The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees.

There are things you do that just come natural, and sometimes those are amazingly in synch, and sometimes they're horribly out of synch, and you're like, 'Ooo! That wasn't very good tonight.' Most of the time, it's just on.