Leave it to a man to mess things up

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.

A man can be knocked down a thousand times and can still get back up, but when he puts himself down he has defeated himself more than a million others could have done.

There are some sufferings that we seem as a creature to forget, or we would never survive as a creature among all the other creatures.

Almost nothing is as complex as the human personality, and no simple formula will ever cover every situation or every relationship.

I ask you to kill my father for the crime of bringing me into existence.

Don't try to create the world in your image-that was God's mistake.

When a man strikes another man, he better have a good reason. There is never a good reason for a man to strike a woman.

Of all calamities this is the greatest.

No one likes change... but babies in diapers.

Music has the power to bring people together like no other art form.

When people have asked if I'd like to go in the Shuttle, I said you don't get to fly it, except for landing, which I'd love to do. I wouldn't go unless I could command it