How do you know that you are not part of a book? That someone's not reading your story right now?

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.

The sacred duty of every soul is to fear God.

I have a very close friendship with the skaters.

I'll bet every great thinker and leader we've got Could see all kinds of things other people could not! So then why get upset if somebody like me Tries to look at the world just a bit differently?

Everybody knows it hurts to grow up...and we're still fighting it.

Personally I don't believe in bad people. I think there's always a reason for people acting badly.

All his leisure clothes were absurd - jokes, really - as though leisure itself had to be ridiculed.

Most American heroes of the Revolutionary period are by now two men, the actual man and the romantic image. Some are even three men - the actual man, the image, and the debunked remains.

I used to wear makeup all the time when I was younger. Now I go out and I don't care.

My friend Anderson Cooper is the scion of one of America's great shipping and railroad families, the Vanderbilts.

Everyone has some inner power that awaits discovery.