In my family, we seem to have a tortured history of not saying what we ought to and not meaning what we do.

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.

You never really get the smell of burning flesh out of your nose entirely, no matter how long you live.

No matter what the hatred is, preserve the possibility of peace and always have room for forgiveness.

This day and every other day, listen from within, GOD lives there.

However much you possess there's someone else who has more, and you'll be fancying yourself to be short of things you need to exact extent to which you lag behind him.

Nora: This is crazy. Patch: I'm crazy. About you.

The infinite Atonement is for both the sinner and for the saint in each of us.

Krishna once said to Arjuna: Consider the past and future with an equal mind, and pass the peanut M&M's.

The only way to quieten me is to invite me to a tennis match.

The more tickets you have in a lottery, the worse your chance. And it is the same of virtues, in the lottery of life.

I've never stopped being a refugee.