I can't be smug, because I know that you can lose anything at any point. And I can't be angry, because I haven't lost it.

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.

Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity - the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires.

I could always make people laugh.

I want all the kids to do what I do, to look up to me. I want all the kids to copulate me.

Now the culture is made of old things, it's a collage. Art made out of art is not art. You're supposed to make art out of life.

Your problems are never bigger than your purpose.

No country or people who are slaves to dogma and dogmatic mentality can progress.

D'Angelo could sing the phonebook and it would sound good.

Practice as if its competition, but compete as if its practice.

The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.

Acting is my first focus, but at the core, I'm a storyteller, and however that comes out is fine with me.