Sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.

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.

We are on a journey not to be perfect, but to be whole.

It takes two to make a very great career: the man who is great, and the man--almost rarer--who is great enough to see greatness and say so.

It is eternity now. I am in the midst of it. It is about me in the sunshine

Film gives us the luxury of deciding where the viewpoint of the audience is, and by knowing that, we can very effectively design around what is actually seen on camera.

I think people get satisfaction from living for a cause that's greater than themselves. They want to leave an imprint. By writing books, I'm trying to do that in a modest way.

The entrance strategy is actually more important than the exit strategy.

No one will ever get anywhere in this world unless he becomes a teacher, one who can show others how to do things.

I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.

I don't want to wear your dad's clothes. He hates me." "You'd rather wear mine?" Nash scowled.

I would have been a Republican, if Karl Rove had returned my phone calls.