The opportunity of studying history, is the opportunity to experience empathy.

Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.

Amsterdam is like the rings of a tree: It gets older as you get closer to the center.

I feel like crying, so I must be crying, but it's impossible to tell because I'm underwater.

...And in freedom, most people find sin.

So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.

A taste so profound and complex that it can't even be compared to other tastes, only to emotions. Cheesy waffles, I was thinking, tastes like love without the fear of love's dissolution.

My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.

The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.

All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm.

I would always love Alaska Young, my crooked neighbor, with all my crooked heart.

A wise woman invests her time and doesn’t squander it in gossip, judgment or idleness. She knows every moment gone is one that she will not get back.

I think you should listen to your heart. It is there the True One speaks to us most.

It/ll be better tomorrow...

The pink-haired boy is scared, so incredibly scared - only the thing you've most wished for can scare you in that way.

Sometimes you need to make a mess. -Loretta, the Rollinses' hosekeeper

I no longer have the fear of being alone. It's cool to find out that you don't need a boyfriend to be happy.

As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.

A piece of cloth that is called "linen" has more validity than calling you and me "black" or "negro." "Cotton" has more validity as cotton than yours and my being "black."

If you have a business model that relies on customers being misinformed, you better start working on changing your business model.