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.

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.

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Man does not know most of the rules on which he acts and even what we call his intelligence is largely a system of rules which operate on him but which he does not know.

My first husband was a serial cheater.

I'm being compared to the impossible. I never saw Mays, Aaron or Clemente play. What about the people I face every day? Tim Raines is the best? Mattingly is the best? Why not compare me to my peers?

I don't think that art, if it's isolated and specialized, can really create culture. It needs a cult.

Being an athlete is a state of mind which is not bound by age, performance or place in the running pack.

The stars are the land-marks of the universe.

Poets know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions.

If a man or a woman puts in an honest day's work, they should to be able to earn a living wage.

My concern is never art, but always what art can be used for.