You can widen the feet of a compass, but they are still attached at the top; you can spin them away from each other, but you always wind up where you started.

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.

Forgive all before you go to sleep, you'll be forgiven before you get up. – Lord Krishna.

We who are immortal, we are chained to this life by a chain of gold, and we dare not sever it for fear of what lies beyond the drop.

Enjoy how sweet how thoughtful how kind I'm being on your birthday. Because tomorrow it's back to the same old crap.

Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.

If I'm playing a violin thing, for instance, I tend to respond to that sound with the way I finger.

Early in my career, I decided I never wanted to get out of shape.

We cannot continue to be a policeman for the rest of the world.

The biggest failures come round and spring ultimate surprises of survival.

You learn the most when you’re out on the edge.

If there is any single factor that makes for success in living, it is the ability to draw dividends from defeat.