Life was all about being in a certain place, at a certain time.

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.

It's in our genetics. It's why women are the master species. We give birth and we can walk in heels.

I never realized how intimidating it could be to be authentic

I'm still the same guy you knew five minutes ago.

Even the darkest of hearts needs a little comfort from time to time.

Every single show she out there reppin like a mascot.

Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment.

The fact that the theatregoing public likes my music is no credit to me. There are many other composers who write better music that the public doesn't like.

It's where we go, and what we do when we get there, that tells us who we really are.

I didn't play with other children.

We have seen that intellect and achievement are far from perfectly correlated.