It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go.

You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.

My life is like a memento mori painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind me of the folly of human ambition.

Slice a pear and you will find that its flesh is incandescent white. It glows with inner light. Those who carry a knife and a pear are never afraid of the dark.

Zoo is an artificial territory, an approximation. Civilization is our natural territory.

To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.

Life is a peephole, a single tiny entry onto a vastness--how can I not dwell on this brief, cramped view of things? This peephole is all I've got!

We commonly say in the trade that the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.

I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both.

If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn't love hard to believe?

No one dies of nausea, but it can seriously sap the will to live.

If you leave your soil untilled, you will not benefit from God’s rain. Even if God pours down a heavy rainfall, it will only grow weeds on your land.

The Fiction defense. Sometimes I just need to use it.

Doubters don't mean a damn thing. I doubt it'll rain tomorrow, but that doesn't mean I control the rain. What I think has no bearing on what is. The wise ask questions, Perry. The weak doubt.

Come to the edge, He said.They said: We are afraid.Come to the edge, He said.They came. He pushed them, And they flew . . ."— Guillaume ApollinairetFrench poet

the deepest subjective experiences are also the most universal, because through them one reaches the universal source of life.

The investor's primary interest lies in acquiring and holding suitable securities at suitable prices.

If you think you are leading and turn around to see no one following, then you are just taking a walk.

We live by faith in a prayer-hearing, soul-converting , soul-sanctifyin g, soul-restoring, soul-comforting God.

You can prematurely optimize maintainability, flexibility, security, and robustness just like you can performance.

There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.