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.

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.

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.

Ein tiefer Fall führt oft zu höherem Glück.

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.

We need all the transportation options that we can get in Virginia - especially options where the private sector carries all the risk and all the cost.

The force that keeps the planets revolving around the sun would be glad to handle the circumstances of your life, if only you would ask him to.

Social engineering has become about 75% of an average hacker's toolkit, and for the most successful hackers, it reaches 90% or more.

I just want to find somebody special, somebody that I click with.

It certainly isn't like I'm reading scripts thinking I need to do something really different. But you want to stretch yourself and challenge yourself; that's really the major turnon when you're going into work.

Just follow your joy. Always. I think that if you do that, life will take you on the course that it's meant to take you.

You don't have to be a member of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute to figure out that when you title a memoir of your parents 'Them,' you're performing an act of distancing.

There's an ecstasy about doing something really good on film: the composition of a shot, the drama within the shot, the texture... It's palpable.

The moment for action has arrived, and I know that I can trust in you to save our country.

The Curbside founders are successful entrepreneurs, who each have sold their companies to Apple.

Government frequently has a problem recognizing perception versus reality.

Well I think that the mind of a serial killer and the mind of the detectives represent the duality we face as people.

Ladies and gentlemen, even my own staff challenges me. When I issue edicts, commands, orders, ideas, you would think that there would be overwhelming blanket acquiescence, approval, and support.

Challenging snow is one of my favorite kinds of skiing, and I like being able to switch techniques at liberty.

As a footballer, you just have to try to learn what you've done bad and what I could do good.

There has to be a social commitment, a social consciousness that joins men together. On the basis of their coming together, they do not transgress against themselves and they do not transgress against others.

I didn't study acting.

The secret to success, to parenting, to life, is to not count up the cost. Don't focus on all the steps it will take. Don't stare into the abyss at the giant leap it will take. That view will keep you from taking the next small step.

I have what I need.

'Yellow Moon' was a poem. My wife at the time, Joel - she's dead now - it was our 25th anniversary. She had the chance to go on a cruise with her sister. And I'm home with the kids and looking up, and I saw the big moon, and I just started writing.

I saw 'Taxi Driver,' and 'Taxi Driver' kind of saved my life. The scene where Robert De Niro is looking at himself in the mirror saying, 'You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? Who the hell else are you talkin' to?' That's the scene that changed my life by changing my attitude about acting.

I never went to drama school, but I did learn a couple of things along the way.

In my sex fantasy, nobody ever loves me for my mind.

When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time.