You build a wall to keep something unwanted out … or to hold something precious in.

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.

Problems rarely exist at the level at which they are expressed. If you are arguing for more than ten minutes then you are probably not discussing the real conflict.

Teachable spirit makes you crave for more wisdom and knowledge.

Discipline means protection from one's own wanton interest.

Something you wore three months ago, maybe you don't wear it again. I am a great believer that if something looks very good on you, you can wear it again, and it's not the end of the world.

I think the actresses who are really successful are comfortable in their own skins and still look human.

Many a man has been dined out of his religion, and his politics, and his manhood, almost.

There's nothing more fun than debating and defending your taste in music.

A sign of intelligence is an awareness of one's own ignorance.

But, I don't belong to anyone...but myself.

It must be powerful language if you canna make oout what the heel it’s goin’ on aboot!