Nathaniel closes his eyes and jumps, his arms glued to his sides like that fly's. He doesn't try to break his fall, just hits hard, because it hurts less than everything else.

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.

Music is our bidet, man.

Impatience, resentment, jealousy and endless "want" are not creative attractors and have no value.

I was just a very dark kid. My family was complicated.

As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.

There is nothing I can't live without. I learned this attitude when I was a child.

I'm deeply, deeply passionate about creating peace and well-being in the classroom, and well-being as a global nation.

What is needed is never to be had without price.

You begin always knowing nothing. You remain forever an amateur, a first timer.

We have 45,000 square miles of geography in Ohio.

I can think of a number of areas in New York where three acres of nuclear waste would make the neighborhood safer to walk around in than it is now, and better lit.