The hardest thing in the world is believing someone can change. It's always easier to go along with the way things are than to admit that you might have been wrong in the first place.

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.

Only through the conversion of time can greatness be bought.

To change yourself, let go of what you are and accept what you want to be.

The thing about Reggie (Jackson) is that you know he's going to produce. And if he doesn't, he's going to talk enough to make people think he's going to produce.

The endless legacy of the past to the present is the secret source of human genius.

If you will be a traveler, have always two bags very full. That is one of patience and another of money.

Critics should find meaningful work.

No, I was just good at holding ice cream cones.

Historians are dangerous and capable of turning everything upside down. They have to be watched.

For me, there are two kinds of women - goddesses and doormats.

The more you learn what to do with yourself, and the more you do for others, the more you will learn to enjoy the abundant life.