I'm glad I don't have a drinking problem,' I confided, 'because I don't think I'd ever be able to quit.

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.

Once the illusion (branti) goes away, one can see ‘as it is’, and that is why ignorance goes away. When ignorance goes, maya (deceit) goes. Once God’s maya is gone, the solution is found.

Only in cartoons and fairy tales and greeting cards do endings have glitter

Poetry is the Devil's wine.

They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse.

The word good has many meanings.

When we fall on the ground it hurts us, but we also need to rely on the ground to get back up.

My life is a black hole of boredom and despair." "So basically you've been doing homework." "Like I said, black hole.

I remember the time I said, 'I don't think you love yourself. You need to learn to love yourself.'

The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze.

Right is right only when entire.