Only a few of us will admit it, but actors will sometimes read a script like this: bullshit...bullshit...my part...blah, blah, blah...my part...bullshit.

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.

I've always been led to believe that the ultimate goal for an author is the movie deal. Now I understand that the movie deal is merely a MEANS TO A MUCH HIGHER END: NAIL POLISH.

Love is deepest driving passion of a purposeful life.

But I'm insane. You're crazy. Maybe that's why, We can just make crazy together.

Profit maximization is the murderous strategy of global corporation hierarchies

The bird of Jove, stoop'd from his aery tour, Two birds of gayest plume before him drove.

When I wasn't sure what the word "charisma" meant, I met Steve Jobs, and then I knew.

Our true remembrance to President Kennedy is in our actions to honor the unspoken words and finish the unfinished work today and tomorrow and for as long as it takes.

For the warrior, there is no "better" or "worse"; everyone has the necessary gifts for his particular path.

I'm a bit of an M&M nut. I like the blue ones. I pick them out.

I believe that the combination of pencil and memory creates a kind of practical magic, and magic is dangerous.