My mother walks forward. She's crying, but there's a smile on her face. For God's sake, is it any wonder I can't ever understand what you people are feeling?

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.

In a time of turbulence and change, it is more true than ever that knowledge is power.

Maybe it's just a daughter's job to piss off her mother.

Be strong. Live honorably and with dignity. When you don't think you can, hold on.

Whenever you avoid alarming situations, you almost always increase your anxiety about them.

The African-American community, the community within the inner cities has been so badly treated.

The thing at the moment is Adele. She is a little too fat, but she has a beautiful face and a divine voice.

For me a true poem is on the way when I begin to be haunted, when it seems as if I were being asked an inescapable question by an angel with whom I must wrestle to get at the answer.

I left school at 16 and skipped university to work, initially as a waiter. I think I missed out on what would have been great years.

Worship and worry cannot live in the same heart: they are mutually exclusive.