Since I'm not sure of the address to which to send my gratitude, I put it out there in everything I 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.

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.

Love your children, for they are the seeds that will make this city bloom.

There is a silence so great that I can hear the ice crystals cracking and falling from eyelashes of girls who will never blink again.

There's things that have no finish, Scully, no ending to speak of. There's no justice to it, but that's the God's truth. The only end some things have is the end you give em.

Life depends on, how much you're alive

Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life.... Just one. Our life. We have nothing else.

The patient and active virtues of a soldier are insensibly nursed in the habits and discipline of a pastoral life.

A man should keep for himself a little back shop, all his own, quite unadulterated, in which he establishes his true freedom and chief place of seclusion and solitude.

So you start one person at a time. Change one person, you can change a village.

I know by the way the punch landed, he wouldn't get up.

I think the culture is changing. An example of that is that the commanders truly want the very best person for the job regardless of gender.