I've always sort of wondered: If everyone else's opinion is what matters, then do you ever really have one of your own?

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.

Eyes which feast on the beauty of the world will always look beautiful to others. That which receives beauty exudes it as well.

The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.

True ability is undisturbed by pretentious criticism.

None of you [men] ask for anything - except everything, but just for so long as you need it.

I've asked about you and they told me things but my mind didn't change and I still feel the same.

There are too many heavy songs out nowadays. music has been getting too heavy, almost to the state of unbearable.

God may not allow you to touch thousands but He may allow you to touch one who will touch thousands.

I have always loved things that are timeless and get better with age.

I am death, not taxes. I turn up only once.

Alienation is perhaps the most effective tool of control in America, and every reminder of our real connectedness weakens that tool.