I didn't want o do metal work and get my hands all nicked up and be around guys. So I took drama because there were a lot of girls.

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.

There is wisdom in turning as often as possible from the familiar to the unfamiliar: it keeps the mind nimble, it kills prejudice, and it fosters humor.

Only when YOU let go of YOURSELF will the real you surface.

Darling, I'm so unutterably bored as to be a hazard

One bright and thankful look at the cross is worth a thousand morbid, self-condemning reflections.

I guess chemistry always changes when you play with someone else.

The new Pope, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, is now Pope Francis the 1st. Francis was not his first choice for a name. But the Vatican wisely talked him out of Pope Boo Boo.

It's not our past which most determines the possibilities open to us, it's what we choose here and now to make happen in our present and future.

You never know who you will meet along life's journey. You have to be open to risks, but calculated risks, open to winning.

You can judge the success of a man by his bodyguards!

The air is dirty because of the electricity monopolists. They have powerful money lobbyists.