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

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.

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.

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

Running an expedition can bring out the worst in a man. It can make you a power-crazed monster.

If we are ever to enjoy life now is the time not tomorrow or next year. ... Today should always be our most wonderful day.

There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.

I know indeed what evil I intend to do, but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury, fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils.

A recurring theme in the literature of secular humanism is the harsh assault upon traditional religion, especially Christianity.

For the first time I was learning how much easier it was to leave than to stay behind and love.

Grief is not in the nature of things, but in opinion.

Thus all things altered. Nothing dies. And here and there the unbodied spirit flies.

Just death, kind umpire of men's miseries.

Sexy, no alcoholic, but she drink like a toilet. Told her do me a favor and put your mouth on this faucet.