Discipline is just doing the same thing the right way whether anyone's watching or not.

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.

Our worship offering as believers should be out of convenience and sheer love for God

The heart is the anchor to all things, be it love to hate, or light to dark.

I know that humans are fond of seeing their kind rendered in other media.

Pardon not wrath is God's best attribute.

Let not a man's self be to him all in all.

For most of the time carrier aviation is more challenging than flying in a spacecraft

I will pause to consider this eternity from which the subsequent ones derive.

Even if we don't see it, God is always working underneath the surface, behind the scenes and orchestrating His plans and purposes.

... the unnatural ways we substitute for the natural prove not enough and soon there must be more and more unnaturalness, more and more violence.

I suppose the pleasure of country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live.