Safety is relative. You can be so close to shore that you can practically feel it under your feet, when you suddenly find yourself breaking apart on the rocks.

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.

A mind possessed by unmade books, unwritten lines on empty hooks.

Gillard is as likeable as Rudd is charmless. She is self-deprecating

His energy is very malevolent. Don't get sick or I'll start asking you if the baby is all right in front of him.

Be versed in ancient lore, and familiarize yourself with the modern; then may you become teachers.

Though top executives may work as hard as ever-in part perhaps because, being trained in an earlier day, they can hardly help doing so-their subordinates are somewhat less work-minded.

I was under the impression I had signed a three-year contract. I want to be back. I expect to be back. I will be back.

If wars in the future are to be prevented the nations must be united in their determination to keep the peace under law.

I think of myself as a plain human being who happens to be an American.

There are bigger stars out there than me. But I went through my s-, as people do as they get older.