If his voice hasn't been the melody of my life, it's been the bass line, so subtle you don't notice it until it's missing.

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 plural of anecdote is not data.

There is very little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude.

I will preach with my brush.

In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing that I find is feeling lost and trying to find your way.

I would write my editorials using a manual typewriter in pitch-black darkness... I would produce the whole thing without having seen the text.

There are lots of people in the world whose existence doesn't revolve around American culture.

The Lord is my strength, my strong rock, my defense, my deliverer, the horn of my salvation, and my refuge. Amen.

I need to put bread on the table man

The real good comedians, like Chaplin, would make you laugh and a second later, cry

There are 365 "fear nots" in the Bible. One for every day of the year. Today I will fear not.