What I think is that there is no perspective in grief, or in love. How can there be, when one person becomes the center of the universe - either because he has been lost or because he has been found?

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.

Just because you are happy it does not mean that the day is perfect but that you have looked beyond its imperfections

One of the surest ways to live a life that's full of disappointments, is to expect people to be perfect.

The best way to piss off your enemies is to out-succeed, out laugh and out live them.

... it is because we have acquired technical knowledge without understanding the total process of life that technology has become a means of destroying ourselves

If I never do another movie, I will have had the privilege of working on one of the big Hollywood movies with top people, creating a world that can only be described as totally cinematic

I've always thought that the most perfect fate which could befall any woman would be to be born a rich widow.

It doesn't cost a thing to smile.

Being an artist is nothing, or at least, not enough; what you want is to be a poet.

The power to tax and spend is restricted by the enumerated powers.

The heart of a father is the masterpiece of nature.