That's the strange thing about being a mother: until you have a baby, you don't even realize how much you were missing one

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.

If you let it, pain makes more space for love within you. And the love we carry inside makes us strong when nothing else can

There is nothing you will ever do that is more important than being honest about who you really are.

If you live at the same time as great contemporaries, you become a flower getting rain live.

I had heard about how people struggle and how hard it is to get into acting. But I did not care because it's something I love.

Awful as the consideration of eternity is, it is a source of great consolation to the righteous.

My name is on the thing, but the reality of it is, when I get up there on stage, I'm part of a band. I'm part of a unit. It's like a basketball team.

We are the only people on Earth asked to guarantee the security of our occupier...while Israel is the only country that calls for defense from its victims.

If experiments on animals were abandoned on grounds of compassion, mankind would have made a fundamental advance.

Always tell the truth, and people will never believe you.

I'd like to be remembered as a man who went to Heaven and not another place.