I think that's probably the most devastating thing - when someone who is larger than life winds up a shadow of themselves in a hospital bed.

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.

The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

Reason can in general do more than blind force.

At first, one sees the person who is modelling; but little by little, all of the possible sculptures that could be made come between artist and model.

Auschwitz stands as a tragic reminder of the terrible potential man has for violence and inhumanity.

Nobody can know what's in my heart. Nobody can know what I'm thinking. I know what I've got to do.

Ah, if I could only pray the way that dog looks at meat.

I can see close up and my husband can see far away, so we're covered. He tells me who's in the movie and I tell him what's in his sandwich. Together we're human bifocals.

Cyberspace undeniably reflects some form of geography.

As writers, we can't predict who might come along who might find our offerings valuable.

The effort to calculate exactly what the voters want at each particular moment leaves out of account the fact that when they are troubled the thing the voters most want is to be told what to want.