It was nice not having to be the one in control, for a little while. It was nice to be the one who was protected, instead of the one who'd been protecting eveyone else.

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.

Maybe...just maybe, the light can reach even the bottom of a dark ocean.

I don't know why, but the Bible always seems to come to me in my time of need, even with the exact words.

I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.

The whole universe is but the footprint of the Divine goodness.

Pleasure is not the purpose of man's existence. Joy is.

Well, to aspiring writers, I would tell them that we live in a wonderful time where you're able to make your work visible, easily.

Many are less fortunate than you' may not be a roof to live under, but it will serve to retire beneath in the event of a shower.

Time exists so that everything doesn't happen at once.

Really poor children in really poor neighborhoods have no habits of working and have nobody around them who works.

He is rich enough who does not want bread.