I can get sad, I can get frustrated, I can get scared, but I never get depressed - because there's joy in my life.

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.

Its Batteries! I just know it!

But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!

You are never in lack, you are always in fullness, realize it and live it.

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you and I laid wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance.

I am a firm believer, that without speculation there is no good and original observation.

This cream will help one's nature strengthen and grow, The diet gives support in my decline.

I'll tell you one thing you can't do: you can't put your shoes on, then your socks on.

I'm an Angus King independent.

I've gotten to play some pretty intense characters and I tend to think it's therapeutic for me.