Then they scrambled through the window and into the darkness, determined to turn themselves into what they were not.

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.

Because some things that seem unimportant now can change the course of human history -- and I am a student of human history.

A woman will always be insecure if she attaches her identity and sense of worth to the amount of male attention she gets.

If I were John LennonAnd my feelings for you grew, I'd have left The BeatlesTo spend all my time with you

We're all weird.

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.― Mark Twain, The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain

You can have anything you want, if you want it badly enough.

My past is not pleasant; I grew up in a very tough town, Waterbury, Connecticut. I grew up in New York, too, but Waterbury was tougher.

The only life that is happy is the life that can renounce the amenities of the world. To it the amenities of the world are so many graces of fate.

An expert gives an objective view. He gives his own view.

It came to me that reform should begin at home, and since that day I have not had time to remake the world.