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

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.

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.

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Schools are a fountain of knowledge: some students come to drink, some to sip and others just to gargle.

The holes in my shoes and the holes in my jeans make me whole!

If you are humble you will never have to struggle against positive change.

the most shocking thing when people pray for heaven, from the one and only heaven....!

Whether we are famous or not, we all need God. We also need other people.

A quiet mind married to integrity of heart is the birth of wisdom.

I love the mystery behind things.

Both salvation and punishment for man lie in the fact that if he lives wrongly he can befog himself so as not to see the misery of his position.

Since I was a kid I've wanted to be in a Bond movie.

We have all this courage as writers, but then there's this fear.