The purpose that you wish to find in life, like a cure you seek, is not going to fall from the sky. …I believe purpose is something for which one is responsible; it’s not just...

When life takes away, something of greater value is always given in return.

It’s all about control. Control is illusory. No matter what university you go to, no matter what degree you hold, if your goal is to become master of your own destiny, you have more to...

When prescribing one of the drugs I take, my doctor warned me of a common side effect: exaggerated, intensely vivid dreams. To be honest, I’ve never really noticed the difference. I’ve always dreamt big.

You suffer the blow, but you capitalize on the opportunity left in its wake.

And the second [thing about the CBS EVENING NEWS that stands out in the mind of Michael J. Fox] was something Katie did later in the interview, as the drugs kicked in and the tremors...

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God’s business.

I’ve dropped my pebble in the ocean, and hopefully; throughout the course of the day; millions of others will drop theirs in too. No single one of us knows which pebble causes the wave to...

I think I benefited from being equal parts ambitious and curious. And of the two, curiosity has served me best.

The American political experience can therefore be viewed as optimism in the collective.

Curiosity may have killed the cat, but it saved my ass.

Family is not an important thing, it’s everything.

One’s dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away unless it is surrendered.

My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.

After all that I’d been through, after all that I’d learned and all that I’d been given, I was going to do what I had been doing every day for the last few years now:...

What other people think of me is not my business.

Some of the best friends you’ll ever meet in your life, you’ll meet though your children–mothers and fathers of their friends, parents from school. You’ll see. That’s the way it was for Bill and me....

Listening to people espouse beliefs different from mine is informative, not threatening, because the only thing that can alter my worldview is a new and undeniable truth, and contrary to what Jack Nicholson says in...

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.

I have no argument with those who see in organized religion a template or an imperative to live life according to a prescribed set of beliefs. Just give others the room, within the laws of...