"I believe that the majority of times the scale tilts toward the good. It's this amazing thing that rolls on and if we get in the flow of it, that's God. And if we fight it, if we swim the other way, we're swimming away from the purest expression of this life."

"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."

"When you're a short actor you stand on apple boxes, you walk on a ramp. When you're a short star everybody else walks in a ditch."

"The moment I understood this - that my Parkinson's was the one thing I wasn't going to change - I started looking at the things I could change, like the way research is funded."

"It is a radiant truth that a life well-lived leaves an aroma of kindness long after the sun has set — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is a steadfast truth that ethics is not a doctrine written in marble, but a daily standard lived in conscience."

"Creativity is seeing what everyone has seen, but thinking what no one else thought. Reflect upon this whenever doubt clouds your horizon."

"Kindness is the invisible thread that binds all kindred spirits together. In this truth lies the bedrock of all virtue."