I imagine how cool it would be if all small talk wasn't lies.

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.

Assumptions can be dangerous, JUST ASK!!

I should have known he’d be trouble as soon as he walked into my workshop, but I couldn’t have known he’d be the death of me.

Most of all, I remember her laughing. It filled my ears. Her smile, her sparkling eyes, and her infectious laughter, along with the vistas, were limitless and unending and powerful.

We're still being challenged in Iraq and the reason why is a free Iraq will be a major defeat in the cause of freedom.

I'm a mix; I'm sure some of my Canadian friends find me very American, both in person and on the page.

All farms are much alike everywhere, and all wild places have their own beauty.

I am not dead yet! I can still call forth a piece of soul and set it down in color, fixed forever.

I hadn't been a recording artist all that long when albums came on the scene, and I was one of the first singers to point the way to how varied an album's contents could be.

I think we're living in a world where society is very difficult.

Anxiety is the mark of spiritual insecurity.