How could I not have seen this coming, when I looked into your eyes and vowed to be with you forever?

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.

Cycling also offers a sense of independence, of being able to get up and go wherever and whenever you want. That's invaluable.

Only the redeemed have the ability to like what God likes and to be pleased with what pleases God.

Riven and torn with cannon-shot, the trunks of the trees protruded bunches of splinters like hands, the fingers above the wound interlacing with those below.

Painting is just like making an after-dinner speech. If you want to be remembered, say one thing and stop.

In America, you will see in area after area, media under pressure, businesses under pressure not to criticize Donald Trump lest he reduce their stock value with an angry tweet.

God requires you individually to come up to the point, to make an entire surrender. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

The brain is a complex biological organ of great computational capability that constructs our sensory experiences, regulates our thoughts and emotions, and control our actions.

You can get pigeonholed in Hollywood and people think of you in a certain way.

Sometimes you have a period piece where you have to research around it but, if the writers have done their homework well enough, the information is all in the script.

We don't see it as revenge or payback. This year's team is a different team.