He gave life to the breath- oxygen, a simple gas, he transferred into words, ideas, hope.

I don't want people to kick my ass, I just want to get to a point where they can't kick it.

By 21, I was earning six figures a week. By 23, I had a Ferrari. It was nuts.

Our challenges don’t define us, our actions do.

The more I expect, the more unhappy I am going to be. The more I accept, the more serene I am.

I don't think [Parkinson's] is Gothic nastiness. There's nothing on the surface that's horrible about someone with a shaky hand. There's nothing horrible about someone in their life saying, "God, I'm really tired of this shaky hand thing" and me saying, "Me, too." That's our reality. We have no control over it.

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.