At home I was raped by a guy i thought I loved' Trixie said, because thats what it was to her and always would be.

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.

I hate our current leaders becouse they don't know the value of there people, but like there ideas because it will soon turn against them and any of there kind.

Mindset is your beliefs about your potential, skills, strength, intelligence and choices. Through mindfulness you can change your mindset.

America isn’t that far from totalitarianism.

No credit--no debt. Credit leads a man into temptation. Cash down is the only thing that will deliver him from evil.

The first years of man must make provision for the last.

In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

We must, then, apply the principle of Doubt to Civilization; we must doubt its necessity, its excellence, and its permanence.

While we read history we make history.

Books bear him up a while, and make him try to swim with bladders of philosophy.