Zitate

Let me say this as clearly as I can: No matter how sharp a grievance or how deep a hurt, there is no justification for killing innocents.

Character is a journey, not a destination.

Work is about more than making a living, as vital as that is. It's fundamental to human dignity, to our sense of self-worth as useful, independent, free people.

If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit.

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.

It turns out that advancing equal opportunity and economic empowerment is both morally right and good economics, because discrimination, poverty and ignorance restrict growth, while investments in education, infrastructure and scientific and technological research increase it, creating more good jobs and new wealth for all of us.

Presence is more than just being there.

A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.

I have always maintained that society has no business dictating morality.

The best vision is insight.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.

I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons.

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.

My abilities grow with each job, whether it's writing or directing. When I stop learing, I'll stop working.

I don't trust anybody who didn't inhale.

Henry Fonda's son: That's how everybody identified me until Easy Rider came along. Good old Captain America.

I want to be on set and die hearing those words: Where's Peter?

Wer uns kennt, weiß, dass wir die Eier haben, so zu spielen.

Bei uns fallen eben mehr Tore als bei anderen. Hinten, aber auch vorne. Das zeichnet uns aus.

Das war extrem cool, ich werde mir das sicher noch 50 Mal anschauen.

Wir haben aber noch an ein paar Sachen zu arbeiten. Wir wollen jeden Tag besser werden. Wichtig für mich ist, dass die Spieler Fortschritte machen - individuell aber auch im Kollektiv.

Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.

Astronomy teaches the correct use of the sun and the planets.

Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.

One thing that's great about firefighters: If they don't have the equipment they desperately need, they don't have the help, they don't care. They'll do it on their own.

I love French stuff. Mmmm, french fries.

If every day in the life of a school could be the last day but one, there would be little fault to find with it.

Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.

Stand-up comedy and comedy in general is the ultimate form of free speech, because you get to poke holes in all the pretentious bubbles politicians and pundits and popes and pretenders try to float over our heads.

Racism isn't born, folks, it's taught. I have a two-year-old son. You know what he hates? Naps! End of list.

It's better for people to miss you than to have seen too much of you.

I've always thought of acting as more of an exercise in empathy, which is not to be confused with sympathy. You're trying to get inside a certain emotional reality or motivational reality and try to figure out what that's about so you can represent it.

Firefighters are some of the most selfless public servants you will ever encounter.

Just because you've made a couple movies, you've done some good movies, you've been nominated for some Academy Awards, whatever, nobody's entitled. It's a business. If they don't see it, I can think they're wrong, but I'm not entitled to a $15 million budget to make a film.

The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better.

When I was a kid, nobody told me I was good-looking. I wish they had. I would've had a better time.

Be careful of success; it has a dark side.

I just wanted to paint and sketch and tell stories by drawing.

I'm fascinated by the ways in which people express themselves, because their responses are often counter to what they're actually feeling. Like when they're frightened, they tend to freeze. When they're angry, it doesn't always come out as volume. There are wonderful contradictions in the way that people express their emotions.

I have no regrets, because I've done everything I could to the best of my ability.

I had a different perception of what a relationship or love is like. I was all giddy-headed and fairytale about it in my head, but it's so different. There's a lot of restraint that you've got to have, compromising in certain situations - and you've got to have a lot of respect.

You are a human being and are allowed to be imperfect, and you are allowed to be flawed. There is a lot of beauty in your imperfections, in your uniqueness.

Sport is a wonderful metaphor for life. Of all the sports that I played - skiing, baseball, fishing - there is no greater example than golf, because you're playing against yourself and nature.

Love yourself for who you are, and trust me, if you are happy from within, you are the most beautiful person, and your smile is your best asset.

When I first started out in Telugu cinema, I signed anything and everything that came my way. I was 18, was immature, and it felt like a good idea that 'Oh, they are paying me a good amount of money.' I was young, naive; I had zero ambition, and honestly, it wasn't my calling.

My mum is a rock star, and I idolise her. She was born in a conservative Muslim family, where the girls were not educated much, and she was required to wear a burkha. She felt repressed but dreamt of driving her own car, walking around in jeans and wearing sunglasses, and she did.

Every star has that certain something that stands out and compels us to notice them.