We must row in whatever boat we find ourselves in.

No daughter and mother ever live apart, no matter what the distance between them.

An owl is the wisest of all birds because the more it sees the the less it talks.

I danced out my pain...It felt like praying, like flying.

If one imitates the upright, one becomes upright. If one imitates the crooked, one becomes crooked.

I wished for someone to hold me up. Suddenly someone was there.

Some things you cannot stop happening.

Some things are more than we can understand.

Sometimes words are more powerful than guns. And sometimes silence is more powerful than words. It is the things that are not said that are important.

..there are two possible endings to every story.

Failure is a greater teacher than success

Gone. The saddest word in the language. In any language.

Consider an achievement accidental if it is not coupled with modesty. Because if the achiever had endeavoured for it, it would certainly have killed their pride.

At least at times of loss, we are reminded of our priorities, of our many blessings. In times of gain, we can so often lose our way.

You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.

After a greater or lesser number of generations the mutants are eliminated.

It's the way you look whenever she mentions her fiance. My cat looks like that before he hacks up a hairball.

Any time I saw people treated unfairly because of race, creed, whatever - it struck a nerve.

Fear changes everything. We're animals, and when we get afraid we act like animals. I'm not exempt from that.