Here's what no one ever tells you about love: it hurts, having your heart broken

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.

We should be unshakable and uncompromising while we stand for God’s truth

The basic urge toward mysticism is never, in the unaltered man, clear enough to be recognized for what it is.

I'm hard pressed to give an example on the spot of a president who explicitly spoke of the vindication of history, but I'm confident that there are many such examples.

Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

What kind of archaeologist carries a weapon?

As soon as people see my face on a movie screen, they knew two things: first, I'm not going to get the girl, and second, I'll get a cheap funeral before the picture is over.

I have done interviews in the past, and they cut everything out except for the outrageous line, and then they take it out of context.

I do not love "good" more than I love "bad." Hitler went to heaven. When you understand this, you will understand God.

Nobody likes the man who brings bad news.

I think a lot of people came into rock n' roll to try to change the world. I came into rock n' roll to make music.