Where you come from does matter -- but not nearly as much as where you are headed.

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.

The opposite of love is not hate. It is indifference.

Work is designed to be a means of fulfilling your destiny

When you've understood this scripture, throw it away. If you can't understand this scripture, throw it away. I insist on your freedom.

Unfortunately...I missed out on the California Gold Rush a century before...I'll be dammed if I miss out on this one.

What would have to occur or to have occurred to constitute for you a disproof of the love of, or the existence of, God?

What these memos do is they make legal acts that were criminal prior to these memos.

Through Khadi we teach the people the art of civil obedience to an institution which they have built up for themselves.

Bullies are always cowards.

That so many people respond to me is fabulous. It is like having a kind of Alzheimer's disease, where everyone knows you and you don't know anyone.

Even going to [ Kanye West] warehouse and modeling for a lot of his new season stuff taught me about my silhouette, how the clothes fit - I've definitely learned a lot being around him.