She became whoever she needed to be to survive,but she never let anyone else define her.

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.

The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.

I'm very relaxed. I'm very happy with my personal life.

Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born.

A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.

From out of pain, beauty.

In terms of withstanding incredible amounts of pain - both physical and emotional - I don't think there's any better training than ballet.

Take any celebrity - all we really know is what they choose to tell us, or what they show us in public.

In our society, to be obsessed with a vision about how to make a better automobile makes you a genius, but to be obsessed with a vision about the nature of reality makes you a nut.

You’re not leaving me here alone,” I say. Because if he dies, I’ll never go home, not really. I’ll spend the rest of my life in this arena, trying to think my way out.

The spirit of rebellion must live in Serbia. Only then will we know we are alive and not servants of a dictator.