She had never been a pretty crier. She sobbed the way she did everything else - with passion and excess.

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.

Whilst the greatest threat to your mission is the internal aspects within you, the external circumstances need to be covered against as well. Scan your external environment and circumstances.

Staying Healthy is the Best PolicyModified from "Honesty is the Best Policy" Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

I have smelt all the aromas there are in the fragrant kitchen they call Earth and what we can enjoy in this life I surely have enjoyed just like a lord!

If you know your life chances are greatly reduced, should you be in a position to take out life insurance if that knowledge is not available to the insurers?

If investing is entertaining, if you're having fun, you're probably not making any money. Good investing is boring.

Let the world wagge, and take mine ease in myne Inne.

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding. The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

You cannot build performance on weaknesses. You can build only on strengths.

I was a healthy young man, and I thought I was invincible before I was diagnosed with kidney disease.