There are two reasons not to tell the truth--becuase lying will get you what you want, and because lying will keep someone from getting hurt.

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.

What you're going through is not meant to hurt you, but meant to deliver you from the evil oppressing you.

She was dull, unattractive, couldn't tell the time, count money or tie her own shoe laces... But I loved her

You are a story worthy of being told, A person made to be loved, With a life meant to be lived.

Democracy is a universal value

Poems have their own fates, like children. You have only to give birth to them.

I do cardio. I run. I strength-train using my own body weight. I don't like free weights, because I build muscle easily.

Give the enemy an inch, hell take a yard.

I am a very strict vegetarian. ...I just really, really love animals, and I act on my values.

Many different substances, as distinct to the practiced eye as stone and wood, go to the making of a novel, and it is necessary to see them for what they are.

Monopoly is the condition of every successful business.