All I know is that I carried you for nine months. I fed you, I clothed you, I paid for your college education. Friending me on Facebook seems like a small thing to ask in return.

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.

Don’t fear obstacles

Our beliefs about the sources of joy are frequently experienced as colored imaginations that captivate our hearts.

My attitude is if fashion says it's forbidden, I'm going to do it.

A family has its own rituals and its own superstitions.

Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent.

Satan, that great angler, hath his sundry baits for sundry tempers of men, which they all catch greedily at, but few perceive the hook till it be too late.

The problem with prostitution in my experience is that it's often unsatisfying.

Dress not thy thoughts in too fine a raiment. And be not a man of superfluous words or superfluous deeds.

Anthrax is a deadly inhalational disease.

Men don't want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.