In the end, though, I did not kill my sister. She did it all on her own. Or at least this is what I tell myself.

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.

Error is the price we pay for progress.

And when I give thanks for the seemingly microscopic, I make a place for God to grow within me.

I think we're all pretty crazy on this bus. I'm not sure I know anyone who's got all the dots on his or her dice.

We should never forget the two axioms: 'Jesus is with me' and whatever happens, happens by the will of God.

You and I who read and write books have very little effect upon language. We may think about it, write about it, and read about it, but it goes on without us, or in spite of us.

Don't do to someone else what you wouldn't want done to you.

Now, I'm an atheist. I really don't believe for a moment that our moral sense comes from a god.

But I'm not to be caught with such poor bait! I'm a big fish, I am.

We need to do whatever we can, legally and within our power, to remove Donald Trump from office as fast as possible before something serious happens in this country.

Probably the hardest thing to do was the beginning of the movie ["300"], I think, when we were in Sparta and all that - just getting in the groove.