If you want something to be true badly enough, you can rewrite it that way, in your head. You can even start to believe it.

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.

What business had I to think of one that never thought of me?

It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.

Physics is about questioning, studying, probing nature. You probe, and, if you're lucky, you get strange clues.

Alan King, a comedian I adored, was considered society, and I was considered the Jewish kid from the neighborhood.

I feel at home up in the air, just like sailors do at sea and climbers do in the mountains.

The only way to avoid making mistakes is not to do anything. And that will be the ultimate mistake.

in today's world no country can be absolutely independent of another. It is a world of interdependence.

I began the process of recording myself seriously in the fall of 1999. If I could finish an album of my own music, I would. Five years later I am happy to say I have.

Consider all the past as nothing, and say, like David: Now I begin to love my God.

If you want to know what you think of yourself, then ask yourself what you think of others and you will find the answer.