They don't really pay attention to me, except when they need my blood or something. I wouldn't even be alive, if it wasn't for Kate being sick.

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.

Today is Your Day to Dance Lightly with Life. It Really Is.

A disposable society is only fit for disposable people.

Silence isn't always agreement. Sometimes people no longer argue because they no longer care.

my mother died of an overdose of sleeping pills after extensive surgery so that the cause of death was probably listed as despair.

Success is not money, cars, fame or material possessions but the lives you touched positively.

No worthwhile life can be lived without risks, despite current American superstitions to the contrary.

In fact, because people are religious, they think they can do bad things.

If you want it bad enough, you'll find a way to make it happen.

I am fascinated with times past.

I know writers who write only when inspiration comes. How would Isaac Stern play if he played the violin only when he felt like it? He would be lousy.