But the key to our marriage is the capacity to give each other a break. And to realize that it's not how our similarities work together it's how our differences work together.

The more I expect, the more unhappy I am going to be. The more I accept, the more serene I am.

Zoos are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures - of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature were pursued, we would need no zoos at all.

Acceptance doesn't mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there's got to be a way through it.

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God's business.

Our challenges don’t define us, our actions do.

If you fixate on the worst-case scenario and it actually happens, you’ve lived it twice.

Family is not an important thing. It's everything.

I like to encourage people to realize that any action is a good action if it's proactive and there is positive intent behind it.

One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.

Medical science has proven time and again that when the resources are provided, great progress in the treatment, cure, and prevention of disease can occur.

My brain has become my enemy. We fight over creation and his need for sleep.

I'm white and I don't dance, but that doesn't mean I have all the answers.

Our real duty is always found running in the direction of our worthiest desires.

Oh, I love to lie. That's one of my favorite things in the world, coming up to somebody, especially press people, and telling them some enormous lie that couldn't possibly be true.

God reveals himself to those who wait for that revelation, and who don't try to tear at the hem of a mystery, forcing disclosure.

Two attributes of a poet, avidity of the eye and the desire to describe that which he sees.

Modern theologians are like a pack of dogs who spend most of their time sniffing each other's behinds.

Right now, though, I wanted not to think forward or backward, but only to lose myself in the words.

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem

How can we scramble away like rats, without honor, without dignity, when everyone must help rebuild the country?