Quickly you make rash decisions. You dismiss your last allies: hope and trust. There, you've defeated yourself. Fear, which is but an impression, has triumphed over you.

You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.

My life is like a memento mori painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind me of the folly of human ambition.

Slice a pear and you will find that its flesh is incandescent white. It glows with inner light. Those who carry a knife and a pear are never afraid of the dark.

Zoo is an artificial territory, an approximation. Civilization is our natural territory.

To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.

Life is a peephole, a single tiny entry onto a vastness--how can I not dwell on this brief, cramped view of things? This peephole is all I've got!

We commonly say in the trade that the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.

I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both.

If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn't love hard to believe?

No one dies of nausea, but it can seriously sap the will to live.

We all seek that somewhere to which we belong and that somewhere is surely not here!

being a harp which the least wind of emotion from another’s heart could make to vibrate as readily as a radical stir in her own.

We have fought this fight as long and as well as we know how. We have been defeated. For us as a Christian people there is now but one course to pursue. We must accept the situation.

Your mission is to find a product or service that can positively impact the lives of 1 billion people because that's the game we're playing today.

Kant is the most evil man in mankind's history.

All the women in my family were very creative.

Shirts don't grow on trees.

There are as many different religions as there are individuals.

It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble, but [we do know] it is our sacred duty.

Humility is a strange flower; it grows best in winter weather, and under storms of affliction.