I don’t think anyone who falls in love has a choice. You’re just pulled to that person like true north, whether it’s good for you or bound to break your heart.

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.

Love cannot live where there is no trust.

Inspiration is the windfall from hard work and focus. Muses are too unreliable to keep on the payroll.

It was a wonderful night, such a night as is only possible when we are young, dear reader.

I spent the day running through the woods like a wild animal. Being chased by you is the only thing that would have made it more romantic.

As a star you never know when people are really serious.

Politics is the art of acquiring, holding, and wielding power.

We are plunging headlong into a cold war, and we have 2,000 nuclear weapons on hair-trigger alert.

The thing that makes you know that Vernon Ward is a good painter is if you look at his ducks, you can see the eyes follow you around the room.

Parallel cinema has not made an effort to communicate in a language the other person understands.

Open borders and the never-ending parade of illegal immigrants does nothing to build the national economy or the American culture.