I have a remarkably normal 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.

In a biological system, the software builds its own hardware, but design is critical, and if you start with digital information, it has to be really accurate.

I was always the smallest guy on the field.

The season of love is that of battle. The roots of these fights run deep.

The problem with unfilled dreams is that they give us tunnel vision. We focus on ourselves, and that can be depressing and discouraging place to look.

We lead strange lives, chasing our dreams around from place to place.

It seems to me them that sees an evil thing unfold and don't do nothin' to prevent it, are just as bad as them that does the evil.

Cloning interferon was not something I wanted to get into.

If you want to play your part in the world's affairs, you must refuse to deck yourselves for pleasing man.

In my opinion, everybody is getting older and older. We have a great deal of dementia because nobody grew old enough to get it.

You can't be a writer if you don't write, it's just that simple.