I wonder if you've got a minute." I have many minutes, all of them used toward a common purpose.

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.

For the weakest has but to try his strength to find it, and then he shall be strong.

There is no loss in life. The only loss is the love did not express.

Night is mine, together with a substantial part of the future.

Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else.

Obama called on Americans to have more grandchildren. Probably so there's more of them to pay off our debt.

Joe Paterno was a well-educated man, and he was also a man from a different time.

Of immortality, the soul, when well employed, is incurious. It is so well, that it is sure that it will be well. It asks no questions of the Supreme Power.

Blasphemy: a law to protect an all-powerful, supernatural deity from getting its feelings hurt.

I love to sing. I'm a soprano.

Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense.