An apology with a defense built in isn't much of an apology

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.

And my worst pains are words I cannot say

I respect the opinions of others.

No", she said, "I know that you don't like me.""You don't know anything.

Attend to mushrooms and all other things will answer up.

I’m famous, but I’m not famous like freaking Brad Pitt or Jennifer Aniston.

Clouds are fascinating to paint because they are the only element in a landscape that possesses free movement.

There's a lot of skeletons in my closet!

I have a cause higher and nobler than my own, a cause to which all private interests and concerns must be subordinated.

Swift justice demands more than just swiftness.

That's the whole goal, to win the national championship. You can't have a legacy without one.