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

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.

Ein tiefer Fall führt oft zu höherem Glück.

Armut und Reichtum sind beides Schöpfungen des Glaubens.

Phantasie ist wichtiger als Wissen, denn Wissen ist begrenzt.

I don't believe in the after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

People that insist upon drinking and driving are putting the quart before the hearse.

Damn the wars but bless the soldier.

I found marriage somewhat stifling. I don't know that I am the kind of man who ought to be married.

Life is an echo. What you send out comes back. What you sow you reap. What you give you get. What you see in others exists in you.

For generations, people have come to U.S. shores to seek opportunity. It's what my grandfather did a century ago, when he came to Seattle, and worked as a houseboy just one mile from the Washington State governor's mansion that I was privileged to inhabit for eight years.

One year, I was a go-go girl for Halloween, and I got all this glitter eye shadow, my hair was poufy with braids, I was wearing all these different colors and fake eyelashes that went all the way up to my eyebrows. I totally enjoy the whole Halloween feel.

Only the pun remains. The pun, beloved of Shakespeare, children and tabloid headline-writers, is normally eschewed in the modern, sophisticated circles in which I move.

I don't think the Christian Right dominates America in the way some in the media believe they do.

Most people are excited about themselves. Personal genome will deliver for inexpensively something about science to which you can relate. Just like computers are becoming something to which you can relate. It should be even easier to relate to your own biology, and I hope that will be one of the ways we get broader literacy in science.

Subsisting on a diet drawn from one food group isnt healthy or gratifying. Even eating cupcakes 247 eventually would get old

The only real elegance is in the mind; if you’ve got that, the rest really comes from it.

There are, I believe, many more false confessions to murders than true confessions.

As a conservative, I maintain a healthy skepticism of the theory of man-made global warming. I also believe that more people enjoying the fruits of modernity and economic development is a good thing - as long as those people arrived legally and obey the law.

There's always room to improve in a restaurant. A restaurant is better or worse every day than it was the day before. It's impossible not to be, because it's human.

For a driver to be driven by somebody else is an ordeal, for there are only three types of drivers: the too fast, the timid and oneself.

I think I must be the only British actor who's played both Stalin and Trotsky. I need to play Lenin so I can make it a triptych.

Legislation must be passed which undoes the damage caused by excessive de-regulation. That means reinstalling the regulatory firewalls that were ripped down in 1999.

The best contribution one can make to humanity is to improve oneself.

I was always attracted to taking a novel position, but one grounded in the materials I'd been given, not made up out of whole cloth.

My dad was a labour lawyer, and the ideas that I grew up with - bad management, bad capitalism, robber barons - when I applied this to my own life, I saw that we are all on both sides of the coin.

Alchemy is the art of manipulating life, and consciousness in matter, to help it evolve, or to solve problems of inner disharmonies.

To make an embarrassing admission, I like video games. That's what got me into software engineering when I was a kid. I wanted to make money so I could buy a better computer to play better video games - nothing like saving the world.

Software options proliferate extremely easily - too easily, in fact - because too many options create tools that can't ever be used intuitively. Intuitive actions confine the detail work to a dedicated part of the brain, leaving the rest of one's mind free to respond with attention and sensitivity to the changing texture of the moment.