I'm also very proud to be a part of a trilogy of films that, if they do nothing else, allow people to check their problems at the door, sit down and have a good time.

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.

However fast you run, or however skilfully, you can’t run away from your own feet.

I am an optimist and when I am too sure of something or someone, well, of course it turns out that I am wrong .. at other situations, I imagine the worst and needless to say, I am again wrong

Transformation can come in the mysterious guise of shape-shifting, or through a simple change of mind

Shelving hard decisions is the least ethical course.

Once you take care of people, people respect you.

Since I love you, my loneliness begins to throw you.

When you first start working for me, directly for me, I micromanage until I trust you.

People don't come to a comedy club simply to hear someone's thoughts, no matter how profound.

I directed a piece of theater in Italy. We took nine fables from the town and we created a play.

I don't believe in one ideal beauty.