Happiness is a decision.

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.

I didn't need to understand the hypostatic unity of the Trinity

The first lesson of my life: nobody can face the world with his eyes open all the time.

There is a difference between the truth and what we wish were true.

All serious innovation is only rendered possible by some accident enabling unpopular persons to survive.

Girls think that being glamorous means making mistakes and being irresponsible. And that's just not true.

Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for

Looking at traditional marriages, it seems the surest way for a woman to be alone is to get married.

Conflict of interest and lack of transparency, though they are global features as we saw post-Iraq, almost define Indian cricket.

Bury my heart at Wounded Knee.

Nobody really wanted to do that one European tour. For one, it was budgeted to lose money. They would've made something, but I would've lost a lot of money.