God doesn't give people burdens they can't handle.

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.

But it was smell that carried memory.

Service is the overflow which pours from a life filled with love and devotion.

I never saw a Purple Cow I never hope to see one: But I can tell you anyhow I'd rather see than be one.

You couldn't be a racist and live in L.A.; you'd be exhausted.

He sits beside the ranking Democrat Patrick Leahy who voted against Jeff Session's nomination in that committee in 1986.

My mother has always been my role model, and I believe my survival in the entertainment business is in large part due to my desire to be a strong woman like my mother. She is my hero.

I believe that school makes complete fools of our young men, because they see and hear nothing of ordinary life there.

The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.

I have never been one to write by rule, not even by my own rules.

Every obnoxious act is a cry for help.