She had loved him. He knew this; he had never doubted it. But she had also asked him to kill her. If you love someone that much, you did not lay that sort of burden on him for the rest of his life.

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.

How do you ask a man to be the last man to die in Vietnam? How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?

To be a climber one has to accept that gratification is rarely immediate.

I love" is a door girls slam in their fathers' faces.

Unbelief is infectious! The unbelief of one strengthens the unbelief of another, just as the faith of one strengthens the faith of another.

Obamacare is a disaster waiting to explode. If you sit back and let it explode, it's going to be much easier.

Kissing scenes with a boy or a girl, they're awkward. There's nothing sexy about it. There's a lot of people standing around.

You know, we have our own audience, and it's not like - they just know we're not going to do certain things.

They always want me to play myself and that's a big snooze.

You will achieve your grand dream, a day at a time, so set goals for each day.

In 13 years I've come to the conclusion that I need to play for second or third place.