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

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!

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.

I turned around, stepped over the Zebra and threw myself overboard.

The moon, right now, is even bigger than my love for it.

He who accumulates has little. He who gives away has much.

He best can paint them who shall feel them most.

Whenever the current of money is forcibly stopped, and when money is prevented from settling at its just level, there are no limits to the possible variations of the exchange.

Our country has to straighten out. And we have to straighten out fast.

A garden must be looked unto and dressed as the body.

[My father] was interested. He read the newspapers and read Time and U.S. News and World Report and people in stores would come along, you know, and they would talk politics.

Lay not the plummet to the line; religion hath no landmarks; no human keenness can discern the subtle shades of faith.

If it's not hard, you're not dreaming big enough!

Listen to and sing the music of heaven.