I might have skipped class, but I didn't miss any lessons.

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.

He said he'd never opened up to anyone... But that confiding in me, was like learning to breathe all over again. I don't know about you, but how do you turn away from that?

Love stories have endings, but love itself is ongoing and continually warped and renewed by the people who do the loving.

All my integrity seemed to lie in saying No.

Women eat ice-cream, men toast marshmallows.

I like Kindness it's something the Government can't tax and it's free to give away that will return to you some day

Let's raise kids to be entrepreneurs.

To be turned from one's course by men's opinions, by blame, and by misrepresentation shows a man unfit to hold an office.

Truly there is a tide in the affairs of men; but there is no gulf-stream setting forever in one direction.

Everything on the radio is metaphorical in a bad way. But when I write a lyric, like "bang my box," that's pretty clear.

Waiting for supply-side economics to work is like leaving the landing lights on for Amelia Earhart.