I've never gotten up to see something one of my kids wanted to show me and not been rewarded.

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.

Death always knew how to connect vice with misfortune.

The real regrets in life are the risks you didn't take.

There are no people on earth in whom a spirit of enthusiastic zeal is so readily kindled, and burns so remarkably, as Americans

A coward's courage is in his tongue.

Either your understanding of the meaning of music is there from the beginning or it is not.

Going from--toward; it is the history of every one of us.

We can serve our customers well only if our buying jobs are right. You cannot sell if you haven't ordered wanted goods into your store.

Sometimes we don't know we're dreaming; we can't even fathom that we're asleep.

I don't see myself as being as big of an influence as other people seem to think.

I'm like John Wayne. I only play good guys. Describing his cameo role on a TV series.