Life delivered me a catastrophe, but I found a richness of soul.

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.

FOCUS = Follow On Course Until Successful.

An artist is a man who digests his own subjective impressions and knows how to find a general objective meaning in them, and how to express them in a convincing form.

Purpose is a desire for something in our own power, coupled with an investigation into its means.

They didn’t tell me I was going into space until after they locked the shuttle doors and started counting down.

The hunger drive is truly a mind-body connection. Eating is so important that the nerve cells of appetite are located in the hypothalamus region of the brain.

He had come so far from himself that I don't think he knew who he was anymore.

Beautiful light is born of darkness, so the faith that springs from conflict is often the strongest and the best.

I love an art-school girl. I mean dont we all?

The mask was a thing on it's own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness.

What is faith? Faith is being grasped by the power of love.