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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.

Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist

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

Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist

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 'A Few Good Men', "I CAN handle the...

Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist

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 civil society, to believe or not believe whatever they like.

Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist

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 divinely assigned.

Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist

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

Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist

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. It's one of the many gifts of parenting.

Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist