You know what's cool? My kids think I'm ordinary.

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.

Leadership is service, not position.

A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent

I put my phone on airplane mode and it didn't fly Worst. Transformer. Ever.

People know if you've got the goods, if you're easy to work with, and if you can get the job done.

There are few plants that are ugly. It's how you use them that may not be pretty.

I have no self-respect. But can a man of acute sensibility respect himself at all?

In his ignorance of the whole truth, each person maintains his own arrogant point of view.

Gratitude is the most important of all human emotions.

Feeling passionate about something doesn't mean you have to be angry.

When you know God as peace within, then you will realize Him as peace existing in the universal harmony of all things without.