The oldest form of theater is the dinner table. It's got five or six people, new show every night, same players. Good ensemble; the people have worked together a lot.

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.

Thanks to his salary, an employee is free to eat whatever, wherever. However, because of his job, he is not free to eat whenever.

I don't believe in fashion. I believe in costume. Life is too short to be same person every day.

Liberate yourselves from everything you know and look with complete innocence at this infinitely improbable thing before you.

We are both busy people, so let's cut the small talk.

I love the tradition of Dickens, where even the most minor walk-on characters are twitching and particular and alive.

The encore is the short piece after the program has finished, where the performer brings out something that the audience doesn't expect.

If 13 is unlucky, then 12 and 14 are guilty by association.

The artistic life is a long, lovely suicide.

Don’t complain, don’t explain.

Glory, the casual gift of thoughtless crowds! Glory, the bribe of avaricious virtue!