The jury is supposed to be twelve peers, but technically that would mean every single person on the jury should have Asperger's syndrome, because then they'd really understand me.

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.

Who saidI can't wear my ConverseWith my dress, well babyThat's just me!

I don't think all writers are sad, she said.I think it's the other way around—all sad people write.

If I always stuck up for what I had, I would have missed the most amazing things I have today. What are you fighting for that you need to let go? Release the magic within. The magic of what could be.

This is the secret to mastering any discipline: as you conquer one, you'll find it easier to tackle another.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

When I was four years old, my mother owned some tenements in the Bronx.

The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history.

The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission.

I love my football club. I love Essendon, I've always been apart of it and I want to be part of it going forward.

We may never see the end results, but that is the difference between the master builder and the worker.