Many people have a novel inside them, but most don't bother to get it out.

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.

There is a difference between how you live your life, and what you do with your life.

I didn't know that once you've proven yourself useful to the wrong people, you'll never be free again.

...the majority in a democracy has no more right to tyrannize over a minority than, under a different system, the latter would to oppress the former.

No one decision in life is so big that you have to live the rest of your life in regret. You can always make a new decision and turn things around.

All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man.

Activism has to remain active. That's the trademark slogan and that's the mantra, because if your foot doesn't stay on the pedal, the car will stop.

A family is created throughout the process, and it's always difficult when you lose someone.

If the supply of virtue is insufficient in a free society like America, it is almost nonexistent in an unfree society like Iran's. The reason is that coerced virtues are not virtues at all.

I'm more convinced each day of the complete unreality of the material world and the supreme vitality of the invisible world of spirit.

I've never been much of a joiner.