You may think there's nothing very interesting about seeing someone sleep, but that probably means you've never found the girl of your dreams.

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.

When you lift up others, you rise up together.

People tend to find books when they are ready for them.

The man who will not defend the honour of his cat cannot be trusted to defend anything.

Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

The universe is made up of vibrating, pulsing light. When our attention level drops, we don't see that. Instead we see what appears to be a solid material world.

You might be a redneck if your mother has been involved in a fist fight at a high school sports event.

I wonder if there was anything I would have done differently. I hope I would have done everything differently, except I know everything would have turned out the same. That's the meaning of fate.

Walking . . . is how the body measures itself against the earth.

Many ingenious lovely things are gone / That seemed sheer miracle to the multitude.

Purity is something that cannot be attained except by piling effort upon effort.