Someone once told me that when you give birth to a daughter, you've just met the person whose hand you'll be holding the day you die.

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.

You life matters. You are here for a reason. Your job is to determine why.

God's kingdom is not the most exciting thing to seek, but the most rewarding thing to find.

What you are must always displease you if you would attain to that which you are not.

My mom didn't let me play video games growing up, so now I do. Gaming gives me a chance to just let go, blow somebody up and fight somebody from another dimension. It's all escapism.

For me, the more I live, the more I need to write. The more I push myself to really live and really experience things and step outside of my comfort zone, the more the songs are allowed to flow.

We say of the oak, How grand of girth! Of the willow we say, How slender! And yet to the soft grass clothing the earth How slight is the praise we render.

I ain't never seen no head so level that it could bear the lettin' in of politics.

I was missing the opportunity to see my friends' children grow up, to have my son go to his friends' homes and be involved with their parents.

I would ask [protesters] to please respect - I'd ask them to please respect the democratic process.

One of the best ways to celebrate righteous history is to make more of it, make more righteous history!