I am not keeping my distance because it is uncomfortable for me, but because it is uncomfortable for them.

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.

He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it.

Anyone who knows how scary it is to be alone, can't help loving others." ~Rin Sohma

My moral compass is so broken I can barely find the parking lot.

To people who want to be rich and famous, I'd say, "Get rich first and see if that doesn't cover it."

It is my belief that tax credits only go to people who are making money, and they generally keep it.

We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory.

I'm not afraid to say I'm very comfortable with who I am and I love who I love.

The Occupy Wall Street protests at last suggest that America's wealth gap is once again becoming an organizing political principle in the country.

When they say accountability, they mean surveillance and standardization.

It's a big problem in South Africa up to this day: many people want to open factories, they want to invest, but then they discover that they don't have the skilled people to employ.