I think I have sort of gravitated toward issues that I don't know the answers to, because that's what's more interesting for me to write.

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.

No, my friend, I am not drunk. I have just been to the dentist, and need not return for another six months! Is it not the most beautiful thought? --Poirot

A Fighter gets up... No matter what.

There are no coincidences. And everything means something.

You can't just turn on when something happens, you have to be turned on all the time. Then things happen.

Plants and flowers of the commonest kind can form a pleasing diary, because nothing which calls back to us the remembrance of a happy moment can be insignificant.

In a free country there is much clamor, with little suffering; in a despotic state there is little complaint, with much grievance.

So we tell the same story, over and over. Just the details are different

Titles or awards are not the mark of your success. They are the beginning of a life-long sadhana.

Next to meditation is music, soulful music, the music that stirs and elevates our aspiring consciousness.

If I thought I could win one more soul to the Lord by walking on my head and playing the tambourine with my toes, I'd learn how!