[My son] will have a fairly stable future. Not one where the schoolyard talk is whose father grossed $8 million on his last picture.

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.

Later—how much later? Hard to tell. In times of tragedy clocks will trick you—Philip stood in the kitchen doorway.

You’re in my bones and my blood and my heart,” he said. “I’d have to tear myself open to let you go.

Wondering if God loves us when we're cheating? Oh, but why he lets us feel things, if it's wrong.

If the mother had not beene in the oven, shee had never sought her daughter there.

Painting is drawing, with the additional means of color.

I hate arrows. They try to tell me which direction to go. It's like "I ain't going that way, line with two thirds of a triangle on the end!"

As soon as I stopped trying to think about a business idea and started focusing on what I’m passionate about, that’s when it came to me.

I might have been born just plain white trash / but Fancy was my name.

I only said 'Titanic' is unwatchable because one can not watch it.

I have this ratio that if you divide age of entrepreneur by market cap of company. For Facebook it's one. Every year of his life Zuckerberg has been making $1 billion for investors.