Sometimes, when you don't ask questions, it's not because you are afraid that someone will lie to your face. It's because you're afraid they'll tell you the truth.

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.

Say not: I live today, I shall die tomorrow. Divide not reality between life and death. Say: now I live and die.

If you have difficulty sleeping or are not getting enough sleep or sleep of good quality, you need to learn the basics of sleep hygiene, make appropriate changes, and possibly consult a sleep expert.

I sound like Homer. I mean Winslow Homer.

I've realized that I can't multitask in the writing department; I can only kind of do one thing at a time.

People are beginning to realize that the apparatus of government is costly. But what they do not know is that the burden falls inevitably on them.

I tried being anorexic for four hours and then i was like, i need some bagels.

I really love printmaking. It’s like a mystery and you’re trying to figure out how to rein it in.

Skin cancer became personal to my family when my father was diagnosed with basal cell carcinoma.

The hardest thing to do in sports, I think, is to hit a home run.

Leaders are not born, they're made.