I never said I do not remember, my grandmother corrects. I said I prefer to forget.

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.

Juilliard definitely emphasizes the theater. They don't train - at all really - for film acting. It's mostly process-oriented, pretty much for the stage.

I just felt my good fortune, and I also trust my love for the book, my love for the material, and my reverence for Stephen King.

You don't run for the presidency out of nostalgia.

The amount of customers who take pictures before they eat is insane.

Well Connor thought ruefully At least now I know who to thank for my anger issues.

I hope to bring people to God with my songs.

The Democrats have pretty much given up on the white working class. That would require a commitment to economic issues and that's not their concern.

I mean, if you go back to 1960 on major pieces of legislation, the filibuster was used about eight percent of the time.

The devil abhors light and truth because these remove the ground of his working.

One way or the other, we are determined to deny Iraq the capacity to develop weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to deliver them. That is our bottom line.