if you tell yourself you feel fine, you will.

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.

A man who do not understand the reality of divine love is he that don’t know God

To understand music, you must listen to it. But so long as you are thinking, “I am listening to this music,” you are not listening.

I was a little self-centered gutter punk in the early 1980s and all I wanted to do was diss everybody.

The good man's past begins to change so that his forgiven sins and remembered sorrows take on the quality of Heaven.

they worry about my sanity i join with them on that

You know your goals and what you need to do to get better-just eliminate the bad plays.

Change can be good. It just depends on what we make of it.

Appreciation in advance brings everything you want to you.

A garden is the mirror of a mind. It is a place of life, a mystery of green moving to the pulse of the year, and pressing on and pausing the whole to its own inherent rhythms.

I don't have a room full of writers pitching ideas. It's just me out of my head.