Accidents did not just happen. From time to time they were carefully plotted, calculated, and arranged to one’s advantage-all, of course, under the cloak of happenstance.

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.

The way you live your day is a sentence in the story of your life. Each day you make the choice whether the sentence ends with a period, question mark, or exclamation point.

The bed is just a decoration in a busy man's bedroom.

The police officer's job is to respect the citizens that they are in control of.

The coming nanometer age can, therefore, also be called the age of interdisciplinarity.

Maybe to become famous is to reassure yourself that whatever you're lacking inside, you've fulfilled that.

I have a voracious appetite for all things, worldly and unworldly.

I liked roaming around by myself.

I want to feel what’s mine. What’s always been mine.

Look, that homeless guy is sleeping on my face. New York really is where dreams come true.

I don't even know what success is.