never trust a man who wears a pinkie ring. . . the only jewelry a guy should wear is a wedding band or a super bowl ring

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.

Someone has to write all those stories: why not me?

Art might be beautiful even though the artist is not.

Defy me not for gleam can only shine in my existence" said Darkness.

[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing.

I truly believed that the creation of hope was the greatest of all the arts, the noblest of all the lies.

Sleep is an under-ocean dipped into each night.

He's passing the ball like Idi Amin.

The power of music and the plasticity of the brain go together very strikingly, especially in young people.

I'll take my clothes off - whatever the job requires.