Not everyone understands how you can spin two lassos at the same time, one of hope and one of grief.

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.

We must look at the lens through we see the world, as well as the world we see, and that the lens itself shapes how we interpret the world.

Many things have been written and will be written for dream. Dreams are nothing but our unclear expectations.

I was a different person before I started to write. When I realized I could be a songwriter and that people would listen - that was when I started feeling good in my life.

Leadership does not mean domination.

I really take pride in the relationship that I have with my husband.

Society is only possible on these terms, that the individual finds therein a strengthening of his own ego and his own will.

You cannot live on other people's promises, but if you promise others enough, you can live on your own.

You get in before sunrise and you get out after sunset and you go home, eat and collapse. While you're aware of the ratings, you aren't prepared for the response of the fans.

Everything is ideal to its parent.

If you give people literacy, bad ideas can be attacked and experiments tried, and lessons will accumulate.