Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life.

You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.

My life is like a memento mori painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind me of the folly of human ambition.

Slice a pear and you will find that its flesh is incandescent white. It glows with inner light. Those who carry a knife and a pear are never afraid of the dark.

Zoo is an artificial territory, an approximation. Civilization is our natural territory.

To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.

Life is a peephole, a single tiny entry onto a vastness--how can I not dwell on this brief, cramped view of things? This peephole is all I've got!

We commonly say in the trade that the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.

I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both.

If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn't love hard to believe?

No one dies of nausea, but it can seriously sap the will to live.

Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul.

We all carry success gene within us, but its manifestation is our responsibility.

The biggest form of witchcraft is denying someone information.

....life is the work of the spirit trying to have a human experience.

If you stumble, rise up, go on.

You confuse what's important with what's impressive.

Do I really look like a guy with a plan?

Positive thinking is the most powerful thing in the world.

I'm very scared, Buster. Yes, at last. Because it could go on forever. Not knowing what's yours until you've thrown it away.

The worst thing that can happen to Russia is indifference in the West - that is, if it were interested in nothing but oil and gas.