Don't assume, ask. Be kind. Tell the truth. Don't say anything you can't stand behind fully. Have integrity. Tell people how you feel.

Light attracts light. But sometimes your light attracts moths and your warmth attracts parasites. Protect your space and energy

Later that night, I held an atlas on my lap, ran my fingers across the whole world, and whispered, ‘where does it hurt?’ It answered, everywhere, everywhere, everywhere.

Document the moments you feel most in love with yourself - what you're wearing, who you're around, what you're doing. Recreate and repeat.

My alone feels so good, I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude.

It's not my responsibility to be beautiful. I'm not alive for that purpose. My existence is not about how desirable you find me.

Make peace with your body, it's not manmade, there are no flaws, there are no mistakes.

I’m overwhelmed. My biggest downfall is my brightest blessing, I feel too much, all the time. Ya Allah, if it’ll keep my heart soft, break my heart every day.

Mother says there are locked rooms inside all women, kitchen of love, bedroom of grief, bathroom of apathy. Sometimes, the men, they come with keys, and sometimes the men, they come with hammers.

You are terrifying, and strange, and beautiful. Something not everyone knows how to love.

With you, intimacy colors my voice. Even 'hello' sounds like 'come here'.

I do not have any trust fund, I have always trusted God for all my funds.

In politics a straight line is the shortest distance to disaster.

It's something inside his heart that's bigger than anything. He's got the heart of a lion about to grab something.

I will love you with all my heart, To have forever - never to part. This is a promise engrained in me, Take my hand and let it be.

The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.

When I get up, the first thing I do is open up Gmail and check my personal email.

I dont have any regrets. I consider myself really privileged to belong to medicine and do what I do. I would do it all again.

One might say that science itself, and civilization and art, are all about different orderings of the world - to contain it, and to make it in some sense intelligible, communicable. And bearable.

I like organizing things. I like organizing my closets, so that I know where everything is. And and I used to color code it.

A few years ago, users of Internet services began to realize that when an online service is free, you're not the customer. You're the product.