The desperate usually succeed because they have nothing to lose.

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.

... why I like timetables, because they make sure I don't get lost in time.

Picture-taking is an ensemble art-like theater.

I abandoned my religious teachings after I read the Bible twice - cover to cover. It took me a couple of years.

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Unpaid work never commands respect; it is the paid worker who has brought to the public mind conviction of woman's worth.

Science is a fundamental part of our existence.

We two [Deucalion and Pyrrha, after the deluge] form a multitude. [Lat., Nos duo turba sumus.]

I have lots of heroes: anyone and everyone who does whatever they can to leave the natural world better than they found it.

The sense of loss is such a tricky one, because we always feel like our worth is tied up into stuff that we have, not that our worth can grow with things we are willing to lose.

A fad lives its life in a few weeks; a philosophy lives through generations and centuries; a principle, forever.