if you don't get sick, you won't get well.

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.

Everyone's a little crazy. Some people just hide it better than others.

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten', he does not say 'My men were beaten.'

On Positive Liberty: The business of the State is to use its organizing powers for the purpose of furnishing the necessary conditions which allow this people freely to unfold its creative faculties.

Death knocks at your door, and before you can tell him to come in, he is in the house with you.

I may not be wealthy; I'm living from pay check to pay check, but I get to make movies, which is what I love to do.

There are moments which are made up of too much stuff for them to be lived at the time they occur.

I think falling in love is always a surprise, right?

I value peace, and I should unwillingly see any event take place which would render war a necessary resource.

You can only do so many things great, and you should cast aside everything else.

As soon as I discovered weightlifting, all I wanted to do - my plan in life - was to work out, lay on the beach, and get high... smoke dope. And that's really what I'm doing.