Our challenges don’t define us, our actions do.

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.

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

Can we go back to using Facebook for what it was originally for - looking up exes to see how fat they got?

He realized that it wouldn’t be much longer before the trees picked themselves up and migrated to the warmer south, leaving their dead, leafless brothers behind.

The quarterback is the leader of the team and the quarterback is the one that has the ball in his hands every single play.

The best tragedies are conflicts between a hero and his destiny.

Television is bubble-gum for the mind.

Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.

I don't hold any candle for drama versus comedy.

In the midst of a universe that cannot exist for a second without constant motion, God transcended the order of nature. He stopped. He rested. And He prescribes the same for you and me.

If a man will kick a fact out of the window, when he comes back he finds it again in the chimney corner.

Water is the sleeping giant issue of the 21st century and we all need to wake up about it.