There is no cosmic scale on which you can weigh your actions; you learn too late what choices ruin the fragile balance.

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.

All we have in love are two unprotected hearts in an open field. And that’s why our hearts bleed so much when we get hurt.

Innovative solutions to new challenges seldom come from familiar places

Yet there’s no one to beat you | No one t’ defeat you | ’Cept the thoughts of yourself feeling bad

Home is where the heart is.

The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.

Sundance is weird. The movies are weird - you actually have to think about them when you watch them.

When I'm weak, you can be strong; when I'm strong, you can be weak. That's what I believe marriage is.

They were worried we wouldn't get any radio play at all[ for "A Deal with God" ]. That's why it was changed [to "Running Up That Hill"].

It is in times of crisis that good leaders emerge.