The moment I understood this - that my Parkinson's was the one thing I wasn't going to change - I started looking at the things I could change, like the way research is funded.

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.

Oliver: Fear is the natural state of anything that dies.

The only way to ensure democracy functions correctly is to question its governance constantly. Fail to do so and you may awake to find yourself living in a police state.

The ones who love us never really leave us, you can always find them in here.' - Sirius Black

The actual materials are important. A book at the nightstand is important - a light you can get at - or a flashlight as Kerouac had a brakeman's latern.

I didn't make 'The Sixth Sense' because I thought the ending wouldn't work!

There's no point in clinging to illusions.

We are not taught to be thinkers, but reflectors of our culture. Let's teach our children to be thinkers.

To make one people better than the other would be ungodly in the first place.

We could all be mediums, and all have absolute knowledge, if the bright light of our ego consciousness would not dim it.

I desperately want a dog, but I've been told I travel too much, and I'm not allowed to have a dog.