I think that ordinary people who are placed in extraordinary circumstances find themselves pushed beyond their limits, and learn new truths about themselves.

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 winner is someone who can look in the mirror at the end of the day and say in pursuit of my goal and dreams I gave my best.

I urge all who have not yet received these greatest of all blessings within the walls of the temple to do whatever may be necessary to qualify to receive them.

Your emotions are making it difficult for you to accept hard decisions.

And who will care, who will chide you if you wander away from wherever you are, to look for your soul?

Chatter about art is almost always useless.

One thing is clear, everyone, no matter what their professional or material status, no matter what their influence on various state structures, must obey the law.

That's the reality of what they're going to sell them to the Treasury for.

Fear is the fear of one's self.

Unfortunately justice is the train that's nearly always late.