Listen,” she said. “I may not be what you want right now, but I’m all you’ve got.

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.

In real life, you don't get a reset, and you don't get extra lives, and I got the crap pounded out of me.

You needn't be afraid of life! Life is so good when you do something that is good and just.

Make good boundaries your goal. They are your right, your responsibility, your greatest source of dignity.

The best slave is the one who thinks he is free.

To fight fear, act. To increase fear - wait, put off postpone.

Hearing Oscar Peterson was something that resonated within me. There are so many musicians I've been fortunate to play with. The people that inspire me are the people I play with.

If you ruin your life, you will pay the price of rehabilitating yourself ... We are not punished for our sins, but by them. Liberty means responsibility.

Charity is an eternal debt and without limit.

The dilemma of the critic has always been that if he knows enough to speak with authority, he knows too much to speak with detachment.

We are all born like Catholics, aren't we—in limbo, without religion, until some figure introduces us to God?