A lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Blocky and bitter and never quite right.

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.

Everyone is bound to bear patiently the results of his own example.

No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.

All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.

Building trust is a process. Trust results from consistent and predictable interaction over time.

I simply don't accept losing well. I just feel whatever it takes to win, you have to do it.

The first time I saw you,' he says, 'I knew we belonged together.

Being a man is the continuing battle for one's life. One loses a bit of manhood with every stale compromise to the authority of any power in which one does not believe.

It feels like I'm starting to come into my own in terms of where I want to go artistically, toward more complicated, interesting characters.

A Superwoman isn't a woman who can do anything, but a woman who avoids doing too much.

There is no such thing as a lazy person; he is either sick or uninspired.