I see possibilities in everything. For everything that's taken away, something of greater value has been given.

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.

A mind is a wonderful thing to change.

I'm gonna start off somewhere small like London or England.

Science is not perfect. It's often misused; it's only a tool, but it's the best tool we have. Self-correcting , ever changing, applicable to everything: with this tool, we vanquish the impossible.

that strange conflict in the American character: we pride ourselves on being the melting pot of the world but we insist on regarding most immigrants with suspicion.

If someone wants to run a campaign about '90s nostalgia, it's not going to be very successful.

When a ball goes into a net it only means something because we decided it means something. When somebody punches somebody in the face it always means something.

A novel with a bad middle is a bad book. A bad ending is something I've just gotten in the habit of forgiving.

Nothing influences people more than are commendation from a trusted friend.

I am neither the handsomest nor the richest nor the most powerful, but I've had the greatest women in the world.

Naturally, things are more complicated - those groovy, pro-social effects of oxytocin apply to how we interact with in-group members.