My grandmother told me that her father used to ask her a riddle: What must you break apart in order to bring a family close together? Bread, of course.

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.

Dream anything hard enough, and it can be yours.

Would you prefer to drag through life for 100 years or live with excitement for 50?

Forbid that I should walk through Thy beautiful world with unseeing eyes.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

We must do the thing we must Before the thing we may; We are unfit for any trust Till we can and do obey.

It is either a half-truth or a truth and a half.

You are all that I could ever ask for... I Love You very much!

I do not think it is permitted that a better man be harmed by a worse.

So that when I came from Panama... my family was exiled in 1973 and they went to Miami.

A house is built of logs and stone, of tiles and posts and piers; a home is built of loving deeds that stand a thousand years.