What if instead of focusing on what you don't have, you concentrate on what you've got?

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.

Plan to make good choices.

Make up for every mistake you make in life. Some of us humans tend to learn from our mistakes and others tend to make the same false mistakes." ― Sage Canny

I feel completely free to do whatever I want and how I want to do it. I feel unburdened by my past.

Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain.

Love God, serve God; everything is in that.

I'm just going to let my record in Congress speak for itself.

In God's sight we do not fall: in our own we do not stand.

Very often we support change, and then are swept away by the change. I think that...you just make your own response to your own generation. A response adequate to your time.

Music - opera particularly - is a process which is endurable or successful only if it is achieved by people who love to collaborate.

Any conscious, wilful impairment of the body is an affront to God.