I think...she said finally, "that all of us have got our ghosts.

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.

Caress your phrase tenderly; it will end by smiling at you.

You try for a little happiness, and what do you get? A few memories and a fat stomach!

We shall never forget that it was our submarines that held the lines against the enemy while our fleets replaced losses and repaired wounds.

We are not responsible for our endowments or natural abilities, but we are responsible for the strategic use of time.

I'm a freaking princess when it comes to other people's feelings. Yo dogbreath, get your paws of the everglades. -Max

Conversation is a beautiful thing. When I was a younger guy, just wandering around talking to people was what kept me connected to the world.

The chiefest sanctity of a temple is that it is a place to which men go to weep in common.

Having children obviously changes your priorities, but when you start to see life through these innocent eyes and seeing everything for the first time, you appreciate the small things.

Crime, to the man of the forties, was an alien monstrous terror.

The idea for a building or an object can come up just as quick, but there is a big difference in process.