I had crossed the line. I was free but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land.

Sometimes I even now feel like a stranger in my country. But I knew there would be problems because I had seen the world as a skater. And now? A lot of people in eastern Germany have lost jobs rents went up food costs went up unemployment went to 20 percent. Freedom is good but it is not easy.

The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

Young actors often don't think of the consequences of doing nudity or sex scenes. They want the role so badly that they agree to be exploited and then end up embarrassing family friends and even strangers.

That's a central part of philosophy of ethics. What do I owe to strangers? What do I owe to my family? What is it to live a good life? Those are questions which we face as individuals.

Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family friends and coworkers and even strangers you meet along the way.

I haven't lost faith in human nature and I haven't decided to be less compassionate to strangers.

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.