"In silence, we are better able to listen to and understand ourselves; ideas come to birth and acquire depth; we understand with greater clarity what it is we want to say and what we expect from others; and we choose how to express ourselves."

“It is the energy projected by an individual's own mind which creates his experience.”

Source : Hua-Ching Ni (1997). “Entering the Tao: Master Ni's Guidance for Self-Cultivation”, p.31, Shambhala Publications

“Usually if someone starts making universal claims, I tune right on out.”

“'Smurfs' just seemed like a great way to represent a young father to be, guy in a marriage, work in conflict, and I was really interested in the technical CG side of things. I'd never done a movie that I thought would be so physical and yet so precise. So I was intrigued by all of that.”

“The big thing is that if you don't try something, you'll always wonder. What could that have been like? What if...?”

“Hitler was no inexorable product of a German 'special path', no logical culmination of long-term trends in specifically German culture and ideology. Nor was he a mere 'accident' in the course of German history.”

Source : Ian Kershaw (1998). “Hitler, 1889-1936: Hubris”

“I'm not much of a crier but it is mildly soul-destroying and exposing to do something physical that you are terrible at in front of other people.”

“Those who have achieved all their aims probably set them too low”

Source : "Die 7 Geheimnisse der Dirigenten-Legende". Bild.de, April 4, 2008.

“The way I've been playing, I didn't really care who I was going to be playing first round.”