There's some illogical part of me that still believes if you want Superman to show up, first there's got to be someone worth saving.

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.

I think the discomfort that some people feel in going to the monkey cages at the zoo is a warning sign.

Democracy needs support, and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies.

I only have 'yes' men around me. Who needs 'no' men?

In many cultures, women are sometimes literally kept from learning to read or from going to school.

We have to do with God, to whom no one can look without the need of being good waking up in his heart; to think about God is to begin to be good.

My family has been my biggest inspiration - they are true role models in my life and career and they always will be.

It is beautiful to be what you are.

The civil libertarians among us would rather defend the constitution than protect our nation's security.

Man, if he would live, must worship. He looks around, and what to him, within the vision of his life, is the greatest and the best, that he falls down and does reverence to.