If you have one foot in yesterday and one foot in tomorrow, you're pissing all over today.

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.

To recognize that the greatest error is not to have tried and failed, but that in trying, we did not give it our best effort

The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.

I see woefully obscure poetry as simply a kind of verbal rudeness.

My dresses are very reasonably priced, for dresses that are cut on the body.

I like to dance, but I'm not a dancer.

I know perfection is one thing I will never achieve, but I will always make it my goal because this means I am always giving my all and working to improve

I don't think I'm egotistical, and I know what my limits are: I'm a black guy who's probably losing his hair. But I'm happy to play roles that I'm given, and I'm happy to play roles that I write.

It really hasn't been demonstrated at any level by any major corporation that it can nurture what is euphemistically called creativity.

I never wanted to be a professional artist; I think that's limiting.