The biggest gift on Father's Day is if I can be with all my kids.

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.

No perspective, no perception.New perspective, new perception.

With an architect as your guide, you canresponsibly stop worrying about what spacessomeone else might want in a house and focus only on those things your house should include.

Through all this horror my cat stalked unperturbed. Once I saw him monstrously perched atop a mountain of bones, and wondered at the secrets that might lie behind his yellow eyes.

I always wanted to be an independent maverick, writing plays and putting them on myself.

The people who come to me are the people who are meant to come to me.

Autism is defined by looking at behaviors. And everybody looks at behaviors differently.

In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.

No man knows more about women than I do, and I know nothing.

The thing about lying to your parents is, you have to do it to protect them. It’s for their own good.

If the other guy is getting better, then you'd better be getting better faster than the other guy is getting better... or you're getting worse.