Since I was five, I've known that I was adopted, which is a politically correct term for being clueless about one's own origins.

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.

Nobody will buy a half-cooked food!

Canada is the place where maple syrup is its own food group.

I ache not from need -but from my heart's gluttony of you.

The power of prayer is priceless. Great things can be accomplished by prayer.

The ultimate paradox, of course, is that even though we're all going to die, we've all got to live in the meantime…

Greed has been severely underestimated and denigrated - unfairly so, in my opinion.

If the devil cannot make us bad, he will make us busy.

If I am not mistaken, the word "art" and "artist" did not exist during the Renaissance and before: there were simply architects, sculptors, and painters, practicing a trade.

When I wrote about the Spanish Civil War many years later, I used documents that I picked up when I was a child, as a lot hadn't been published (a lot more resources are available now).

There is no personal right to be armed for private purposes unrelated to the service in a well regulated militia.