It's never the differences between people that suprise us. It's the things that, against all odds, we have in common.

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.

Effective decision-making can be seen as an optimal link between memory of the past, ground-realities of the present and insights of the future.

Neither of us asked to be born descendants, yet I’d be rewarded with his death, and we couldn’t prevent that. No one could. (Eric)

At the age of 46, forgetfulness & confusion had become a daily aspect of life.

The Book that made the nation was destroying the nation.

I don't put big concepts on my work, and it's all often about keeping actors in a room together and not letting them leave.

God knows we’re all drawn to what’s beautiful and broken.

most people lose the ability to see silver linings or even though they are always there above us.

Writing a good query letter has very little to do with writing a good novel. But if you can't write the one, it makes it really hard to get the other published.

Those who have themselves for a spiritual director have a fool for a spiritual director.

I believe profoundly in the importance of museums; I would go as far as to say that you can judge a society by the quality of its museums.