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.

When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth.

War is strange. In the beginning it is about people

Democracy is about the dialogue

Oh hell no, I thought. I am not wasting my first kiss on some guy who's skipping out on our first date.

The movie industry is full of crazy people who think that they are god.

The best practitioners give to their patients the least medicine.

Yeah, all those things, responsibility, pressure. It's a bit stressful. I try and come to terms with it by not thinking about it.

When incredulity becomes a faith, it is less rational than a religion.

But when I record my next studio album, of course I'll do the lead vocals

There are huge challenges ahead for this country but also huge opportunities. We can make this country stronger and fairer.

The higher your station, the less your liberty.