Just because you didn't speak the facts out loud didn't erase their existence. Silence was just a quieter way to lie.

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.

What can I do?” he asked. “To start taking care of you?

To be civilized, really, is to be aware of the others, their hopes, their gladnesses, their illusions about life.

He makes no friend who never made a foe.

Faith mighty faith the promise sees And looks to that alone Laughs at impossibilities And cries it shall be done.

The scientific argument advanced for intelligent design at the Dover trial, those arguments collapsed, scientifically and intellectually.

The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap

You mortgage yourself sometimes. You know what you want to do, then you balance it against paying the rent.

If I fall, I fall. I'll rise up like anybody else.

She took off her wheel, took off her bell, took off her wig, said, how do I smell? I hot footed it barenaked out the window.

There are always gonna be people that are gonna be offended about something. This will never end.