A dutiful mother is someone who follows every step her child makes...And a good mother is someone whose child wants to follow her.

Everytime I look at a zebra, I can't figure out whether it's black with white stripes or white with black stripes, and that frustrates me.

Love is not a because, it's a no matter what.

The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.

There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.

There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing -- light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light.

You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.

Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.

The wolves knew when it was time to stop looking for what they'd lost, to focus instead on what was yet to come.

If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?

‎Pick ten strangers and stick them in a room, and ask them which of us they feel sorrier for - you or me - and we all know who they'll choose.

More than at any other time, when I hold a beloved book in my hand my limitations fall from me, my spirit is free.

I daresay something will happen, between now and ’91, to make your fortunes look up.

Wipe out the entire defense potential remaining to the Soviets.

To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Photography is only intuition, a perpetual interrogation - everything except a stage set.

Death: Do you never stop questioning? Antonius Block: No. I never stop.

It's what you get from games you lose that is extremely important.

Silence in the face of atrocity is not neutrality; silence in the face of atrocity is acquiescence.

I'm the drummer that kind of plays more on top of the beat.