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.

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.

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

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.

Best, I'd advise, to give up all animal products obtained by cruel methods. There are some fine companies nowadays offering leather substitutes.

I want to get out there and do anything, but I still don't know about riding roller coasters. I've never been on one. There is something about being strapped in and on a track; I always feel like we're going to be launched off somewhere.

Network technology has irrevocably changed campaigning and elections. It has the potential to transform governance and the workings of our democracy for the better.

Most North Americans know that human-caused global warming is real, even if political leaders don't always reflect or act on that knowledge.

Because a human being is endowed with empathy, he violates the natural order if he does not reach out to those who need care. Responding to this empathy, one is in harmony with the order of things, with dharma; otherwise, one is not.

When I'm marketing a film, whether its mine or someone else's, I work with a great deal of strategy and elbow grease until the job is done.

You have more time to make the play at second base than shortstop. That's why the game's more quick.

Well, with prophecy you got to see what happens.

I'd rather buy clothes than buy a bed.

All religions, all indigenous traditions, all origin stories provide a large map of where you are.

I love surfing, rock climbing, cycling - all that stuff. But it's just amazing that I can inspire people with my running. It's humbling, really.

As the nation's elderly population grows, dozens of industries have tried to harness the political might of older Americans for corporate goals.

After I was discharged from the military, it was difficult trying to become a civilian.

When you grow up being taught to worship, whatever that means, there is an array of body-rich symbols: tears, blood, crucifixion, the stations of the cross, transubstantiation... Faith is a belief in something that is irrational, and so to have faith, there is some correlation there with the belief in the art.

Awareness is the enemy of sanity, for once you hear the screaming, it never stops.

Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give; when to this truth you waken then you begin to live.

Perfection is the child of time.

There is always that thought that you might get stuck with a character. But there's always the notion that every character is always evolving.

I was teased up until high school about my hair, being short, my high pitched voice, and just anything you can think of.

I blame my mother for my poor sex life. All she told me was 'the man goes on top and the woman underneath.' For three years my husband and I slept in bunk beds.

I've discovered that I've never had much respect for money, and that has meant that money has ended up ruling me a little bit more than it should have. So I'm trying to learn - at this late stage in life! - to actually control that.

The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.

I don't really worry about the weather... as long as you have good access to the stadium, that's the one thing you worry about.

Reading 'Moby-Dick' was really a sort of transformative literary experience for me.