I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them. Brian Fitzgerald, talking about his children.

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.

Only a fool believes that his actions don't shape the world.

In Morocco, " said Osman, "word spreads like a fire tearing through the depths of Hell.

The sun was slowly setting in the west, casting golden beams of light into the somber old room.

If you're working a fight with let's say John Ruiz and...anyone and Ruiz goes jab, jab and grab, you better see whose landing the punches before it becomes a wrestling match.

Being a musician enables a person to bend the notes and express things that are inside you, no matter what.

Relax, I'll get it. (said to Kato after Clouseau knocks him unconscious)

When a society lacks God, even prosperity is joined by a terrible spiritual poverty.

It's still possible to be a cockeyed optimist these days - you just have to be a little more cockeyed.

My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.

It is outrageous that at this time in our country, women are still not paid as much as men.