Only the liar knows he's lying

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.

When we appreciate a flower, we are really appreciating the beauty of our amazing minds.

The formation of different languages and of distinct species and the proofs that both have been developed through a gradual process, are curiously parallel.

There have been many definitions of beauty in art. What is it? Beauty is what the untrained eyes consider abominable.

Making a mistake is falling down; failure is not getting up again.

Often a purple patch or two is tacked on to a serious work of high promise, to give an effect of colour.

When somebody elses happiness makes you happy, it means you are a person with a big heart.

I don't like writing in front of a lot of people, it has to be an intimate experience with people I trust.

There's a film you write, there's a film you shoot, and there's a film that you cut - and they're all different.

We draw our strength from the battle. From our greatest conflicts come our greatest victories.

According to scholars of linguistics, the relation between a word and its meaning is arbitrary.