My age makes me think how valuable life is. How bad is something like Parkinson's in relation to not having life at all?

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.

Keep the soil healthy and the bad seed won't grow.

In misfortune lies the seed of future triumph.

The law compells no man to impossible things. The argument ab impossibili is forcible in law.

Spiritual knowledge is the experience of enlightenment, and requires an understanding of the inner-most workings of the enlightenment cycle.

In law school they teach you that everything is a contract; well, in poetry everything is a narrative.

Friendship can only be addition to, not a substitute for true love

So often actors only mix with actors, which is quite incestuous, and doesn't give them the insight into how other people work.

I get between nine and ten hours of sleep. Go to bed at 8:30 and get up at 6:00 or 6:30 if I oversleep.

To purify the heart is the one and only purpose that God has created this human life.

The greatest homage to truth is to use it.