The doctors may be mapping out the war games, but it is the nurses who make the conflict bearable.

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.

Our ability to forgive is a direct measure of our hope

Throughout my life, there are four people I've met who were truly original people. The other three were Groucho Marx, Jim Morrison and Pablo Picasso.

The praise of a fool is incense to the wisest of us . . .

Fast food also has a uniquely difficult business structure for workers to achieve better wages and working conditions.

Loss is the hardest thing, I said. But it's also the teacher that's the most difficult to ignore.

Having the competitive edge to be able to succeed is having control of your time, life and mind.

In the comedies I've been lucky enough to be a part of a world like Judd Apatow's, where I believe comedy comes from real people.

Making a painting is like playing the saxophone. You hit the note and it comes out.

No matter how much you rehearse on that stage, once you add 30,000 screaming people with flashing cameras into the equation, it's pretty intense.

The ethic of conviction and the ethic of responsibility are not opposites. They are complementary to one another.