You make yourself strong because it's expected of you. You become confident because someone beside you is unsure. You turn into the person others need you to be.

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.

Nothing, absolutely nothing, happens 'till parents stop clenching their fists around precious things and people, let go, & trust God!

My whole problem is that all of my favorite things at Thanksgiving are the starches, and everyone is trying to go low-carb this year, even a green vegetable has carbs in it.

When women have a voice in national and international affairs, wars will cease forever.

To be famous and broke is hard.

The priest is the personification of falsehood.

I always say I am a realist, and my mom says, "No, you just have anxiety."

The message we have internalized is clear - we are what we do and what we own, not what we are inside ourselves. Where it counts!

You only know that you’re in love when you suffer.

I worry that my daughters are too taken care of.

I don’t want to be a person with full hands, resting from dreams, but a person full of dreams unable to rest his hands.