Everyone has a book inside of them - but it doesn't do any good until you pry it out.

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.

You were born to soar not to snore.

We were not born with a purpose of marrying and giving life to a son-animals are able to have children too and they can have many more children than we do

I made my name”. What does this mean? It means you fought and won your inner battle against fears and restrictions

I set down a beautiful chord on paper—and suddenly it rusts.

I love challenges and hurdles because they are opportunities.

You ought to be thankful a hole heaping lot, for The places and people you're lucky you're not!

I think in life, you have a choice. You can either be optimistic or pessimistic, and I go for the optimism.

I believe what I have to say is important, and I believe the people coming to hear me are important, and so the occasion of itself alone has an importance, which forces me to stare down my nerves.

I do feel songwriting is a bit of its own creature and the writerliness of it...it's freeing. It's good for people who have an innate resistance to any restrictions whatsoever.

It is better to disappoint people with the truth than to appease them with a lie.