Saying goodbye to the people you love isn't easy

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.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

Sometimes, as we're stumbling along in the dark, we hit something good.

If someone tries to use you as a tool, you shouldn't mind it, because it is their choice and folly, not yours.

Stop praying for salvation when it is clear, You are the saviours that we need around here.

I do love animals so much, and have a great respect for them emotionally and intellectually, because they are so different from human beings.

Every man's vanity ought to be his greatest shame; and every man's folly ought to be his greatest secret.

Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.

I've worked all my life to shed myself of any character.

I just trust God. I don't worry about what tomorrow may bring because I know who's bringing it.

When Christ possesses the will He keeps it fixed. The trouble comes when we take matters out of His hand and try to handle them ourselves.