Did you ever walk through a room that's packed with people, and feel so lonely you can hardly take the next step?

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.

And, like the prodigal son, he had returned broken in body and also in mind to the house where he had been born, and he and his child had been welcomed with open arms.

I think we should throw money at artists, not at girls who take their clothes off because they made a bad choice in life.

Many schools today are sacrificing social studies, the arts and physical education so children can cover basic subjects like math, English and science.

My first instinct when I write songs is not a negative one. It's something positive... Everything I've ever done has some form of hope in it, I think.

Don't go getting all shy on me now, Lana," he drawled, squeezing my sides with his hands

He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him.

That's, of course, the beautiful thing about science - that it's all about things we don't understand, not just the things we do understand.

Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline.

It often happens that those who spend their time giving light to others, remain in darkness themselves.

Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul.