In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who loses a child.

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.

In the greatest trial, we behold the greatness of our great God.

Prayer is not our using of God

Foolish defiance was his lifelong response to being ill.

Skin to skinSalt on your skinWave after wave An eruption of emotions.

Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.

Back before I injured my hip, I thought going to the gym was for wimps.

Political advertising ought to be stopped. It's the only really dishonest kind of advertising that's left. It's totally dishonest.

One day the world will look upon research upon animals as it now looks upon research on human beings.

Customs do not concern themselves with right or wrong or reason. But they have to be obeyed; one reasons all around them until he is tired, but he must not transgress them, it is sternly forbidden.

In 1976 I discovered Ebola - now I fear an unimaginable tragedy.