And if your parents have you for a reason, then that reason better exist. Because once it's gone, so are you.

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.

Courage is not the absence of fear. It is accepting and neutralizing the fear with the power of love.

God gave you a gift of 86 400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you"?

The camera points both ways. In expressing the subject you also express yourself.

Do you know something? The minute that blood sacrifice was accepted, Jesus was the first human being that was ever born again. Now that was real - it happened when he was in Hell.

What is it about a baby bump that makes people feel it's okay to say things like, 'God! You are big!'

The Jew does not wish to be isolated. He fears being alone, without allies.

I'm really into the idea of playing sit-down drums again. I don't know if it'll end up that way, but as of right now, that's what I'm interested in doing.

If you cheat on your wife, you'll cheat on your business partner.

All authors secretly hope that their works will be read in 100 years' time and 200 years, and that they will somehow survive into the future.

The human moral sense can excuse any atrocity in the minds of those who commit it, and it furnishes them with motives for acts of violence that bring them no tangible benefit.