Superheroes were born in the minds of people desperate to be rescued.

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.

God gives courage for us to triumph in any trouble.

The world we inhabit is one where children feel sorrow long before they have the words to express it.

The source of man is in man, and when a man dies, millions of men die in him.

I'm a good girl because I really believe in love, integrity, and respect. I'm a bad girl because I like to tease.

It's so easy to conform and to follow. It's very difficult to be rebellious and live by what you believe is right. And to make decisions and to take the consequences. Very few people do.

Something which we think is impossible now is not impossible in another decade.

Everyone always says, 'Kristen got 'Panic Room' because she looks like Jodie Foster.' But it was actually Nicole Kidman who was supposed to play my mother.

How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question.

one doesn't really grow older; it's just that other people grow younger.

Decision making is the specific executive task.