When we refuse to accept our limitations, Nature, who is a stern realist, pays us out.

There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.

Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from within.

Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it.

Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness.

It's a good thing to learn early that other people's opinions do not matter, unless they happen to be true.

if you listen long enough - or is it deep enough? - the silence of a lover can speak plainer than any words! Only you must know how to listen. Pain must have taught you how.

All persecution is a sign of fear; for if we did not fear the power of an opinion different from our own, we should not mind others holding it.

She believed in letting children have a certain amount of rope, and only intervened at the last moment, in order to prevent their hanging themselves by it.

Time indeed has very little to do with living except at its beginning or near its end.

To be a Jew is to be strong with a strength that has outlived persecutions. It is to be wise against ignorance, honest against piracy, harmless against evil, kind against cruelty

Before the first before and after the last after, there is night waiting.

It is only through seeking that we find what we are looking for.

I sighed and deleted the message, imagining the dirty clothes multiplying like rabbits, because that’s what they do when I’m not around.

Traits like humility, courage, and empathy are easily overlooked - but it's immensely important to find them in your closest relationships.

Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.

Songwriting is a really fortunate skill to have to frame living and to find new ways to observe things you're going through.

The quickest way to a man's heart really is through his stomach, because then you don't have to chop through that pesky rib cage.

I just try to think of all the things that could go wrong so in that split second when it happens, maybe your body reacts in a way where it protects you just a little.

The world is continually changing. I think in some ways it's changing in a very positive way.

I think it's cool to come out of somewhere where you're being pushed into this mold and then you figure out in that who you are.