Ein tiefer Fall führt oft zu höherem Glück.

Gib jedem Tag die Chance, der schönste deines Lebens zu werden.

Wenn du die Absicht hast, dich zu erneuern, tue es jeden Tag.

Suche nicht nach Fehlern, suche nach Lösungen.

Wenn man alles berechnet, gelingt nichts.

Habe keine Angst, das Gute aufzugeben, um das Großartige zu erreichen.

Ist dein Verlangen groß genug, wird man glauben, du hast übermenschliche Kräfte.

Wer die Freiheit aufgibt, um Sicherheit zu gewinnen, wird am Ende beides verlieren.

Die Fähigkeit, das Wort „Nein“ auszusprechen, ist der erste Schritt zur Freiheit.

Zuerst ignorieren sie dich, dann lachen sie über dich, dann bekämpfen sie dich und dann gewinnst du.

Ich denke, dass man immer ein wenig anders sein musste, um einen Apple-Computer zu kaufen. Oft halten sich solche Menschen selbst für ein bisschen verrückt. Doch in dieser Verrücktheit sehen wir Genialität.

Man muss das Unmögliche versuchen, um das Mögliche zu erreichen.

Einfach machen.

Ich bin genauso stolz auf das, was wir nicht tun, wie auf das, was wir tun.

Die Kunst ist, einmal mehr aufzustehen, als man umgeworfen wird.

Auch aus Steinen, die einem in den Weg gelegt werden, kann man Schönes bauen.

Jeder Nachteil lässt sich in einen zumindest gleich großen Vorteil verwandeln.

Armut und Reichtum sind beides Schöpfungen des Glaubens.

Phantasie ist wichtiger als Wissen, denn Wissen ist begrenzt.

Every mom is ready to get her life and body back.

I had 45 Avril Lavigne posters. Those were my first posters.

A difficult message to hear is an opportunity to enrich someone's life.

Presidential primary debates are an important part of our political process. But the media has wrested complete control from the parties and candidates over everything, including the number, the format, the qualifications, and the moderators. And they've become a circus.

I'm such a robot when it comes to work.

A great nation is any mob of people which produces at least one honest man a century.

The civil rights situation is like a pregnancy. It will get worse I believe before it gets better. What the usual pregnancy comes to is a decent baby. That is what we all hope will be the end product of this stress. It is customary at the end of a pregnancy to have for your pains a decent baby.

When you kill time, remember that it has no resurrection.

I could see that everything I had identified as really me, was not really me, but was just a pattern of strategies to avoid some kind of abyss or emptiness.

Christmas is a tonic for our souls. It moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves. It directs our thoughts to giving.

Two of my favorite actresses are Meryl Streep and Angelina Jolie. So, I would love, love, love to work with them. But I also really love AnnaSofia Robb. There are a lot of great actresses I would love to work with.

Dreaming is an act of pure imagination attesting in all men a creative power which if it were available in waking would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare.

I didn't know a soul when I got to New York, and I felt really displaced. The first week I was euphoric, and then I realized how isolating the city can be.

The mandate you go with is intimidating and also is a source of respect that you gain, because you have come with this mandate from the United Nations.

I have to do something with my mind, or I'll get in trouble.

The one thing we can do is invest in the quality of education, especially higher education.

Change your attitude to “I’ll see it when I believe it ” - not the other way around.

'Deal or No Deal' works nicely with my ADD/ADHD symptoms. I show up, meet the contestants, and move around the set. I'm not stuck behind a pedestal reading trivia questions. I've always had problems sitting still and listening for long periods of time. The show spares me these challenges. I can live in the moment. It's like a standup act.

I had some years of definite frustration. Auditioning and not working as much as I would have liked to, or working and being paid a pittance, and sort of scrounging by in New York and sleeping on a chair that folded out into a bed.

Idealism leads to realism if it is strictly thought out.

I do not like to be unkind.

Religion is a very scary thing, because a pastor is in a position of power. And if you use that power badly, you ruin people's lives, and you ruin your own life.

If my accomplishments frighten someone, it's nothing to do with me - that's to do with them. But the men who are in my life see me as a person - as a woman - not as a character I've played.

Those who kept their sanity and humanity intact in the face of awful adversity. Heroes named and unnamed, some known only to God.