A man should live his life a certain way not because of some divine authority, but because of a personal moral obligation to himself and others.

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.

Every gentle word, every generous thought, every unselfish deed, will become a pillar of eternal beauty in the life to come.

He who chooses to be his own god will have no God to save him." ~ Dr. MaryAnn Diorio

I want something from Daddy that he is not able to give me. ... It is only that I long for Daddy's real love: not only as his child, but for me - Anne, myself.

Accept what comes to you totally & completely so that you can appreciate it, learn from it & then let it go.

I happen to believe that health care is an imminent crisis. It is.

The best thing you can learn from the worst times of your life is that it always gets better. It may take a month, a year, a decade, but it will get better if you leave yourself open to it.

Be the most ethical, the most responsible, the most authentic you can be with every breath you take, because you are cutting a path into tomorrow that others will follow.

There has never been a great film unless it was created in the spirit of the experimental filmmaker.

Domestic matters are trifles for us. But they occupy the principal part of my life. They teach me to know my limitations.

The willow tree plays the water like a harp.