Your hand fits mine like the last piece of a jigsaw puzzle

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.

Even if he did explain it, no one would believe him because no one would understand him. That's the downside to being a genius - just because you understand something doesn't mean anyone else will.

Take full account of the excellencies which you possess and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them if you had them not.

Am I like the optimist who while falling ten stories from a building says at each story "I'm all right so far"?

The people who present themselves as normal and nice and good are often the scariest monsters in the world.

Soup simmering, music of idle gossip, yammering kids, domestic chaos - long adjusted to this rolling scene, you show them your lofty calm.

Everything, every part that you approach has to be somehow rooted in yourself. You have to somehow root everything so that it's not just words coming out of you.

I've never been burdened with a hit record, so I don't have to play the same songs. I play songs people think they like.

For an athlete, there's no time off until it's over.

Success is not the measure of a man but a triumph over those who choose to hold him back.

President Obama is going to have to run against himself. In tough times, nobody can defeat himself.