When you don't know where you're headed, you find places no one else would ever explore.

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.

Connecting with someone is not necessarily a bond with a significant other, or even a friend, but can be the indefinable - perhaps the rarest and most precious thing in life to find at all.

live as temporal, serve as eternal

I had a strange feeling that Fate had in store for me exquisite joys and exquisite sorrows.

When you want to do your homework, fill out your tax return, or see all the choices for a trip you want to take, you need a full-size screen.

There is a longing among all people and creatures to have a sense of purpose and worth. To satisfy that common longing in all of us we must respect each other.

So, after school, I needed to learn a trade and started to work as a tailor.

In practice in 2007 I had a limit that probably would've weighed almost 30 pounds.

There is no cure for emphysema, but you can start treating it and have a better quality of life.

Only by knowledge of that which is not thyself, shall thyself be learned.

Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.