A fire can't burn forever. Eventually, it consumes itself.

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.

Real geniuses would like that what we think of ourselves is true.

At some point we must stop editing everyone else' story and start writing our own.

It's all about what you feel on the inside - and I'm feeling like a chocolate chip cookie because I had about ten of them last night!

The strongest symptom of wisdom in man is his being sensible of his own follies.

Why do waiting rooms have to be so ominous?

Each period has its own appeal.

Return to the purity of your innocence where you are enchanted with life. Give love for no reason. Surround yourself with others doing the same.

We can't dwell upon another's ingratitude without using up our time and talents unprofitably.

The language of tones belongs equally to all mankind, and melody is the absolute language in which the musician speaks to every heart.

Don't break the silence unless you can improve on it.