There are so many ways a family can unravel. All it takes is a tiny slash of selfishness, a rip of greed, a puncture of bad luck. And yet, woven tightly, family can be the strongest bond imaginable.

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.

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A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.

Life is too short, the world is too big and God's love is too great to live ordinary.

A man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths, which his mind was capable of knowing, and that with certainty.

If your kid comes out of the bedroom and says he just shut down the government, it seems to me he should at least have an outfit for that.

Man - a figment of God's imagination.

No one can be trusted who isn't thrilled with himself at least now and then.

Darkness can only be scattered by light, hatred can only be conquered by love.

Did I become court composer through masterful procrastination? Hardly!

I just don't think I've ever been comfortable at public functions and selling myself as an entity.