There is a reason the word belonging has a synonym for want at its center; it is the human condition.

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.

Most of the people of this world are asleep in their minds.

Freedom isn't about having permission to do whatever we want... it's about having the courage to do whatever fills our life with meaning.

Of course [I'm a feminist]. And everyone I know is a feminist.

The very urge to get rid of desire is still desire, is it not?

It's my responsibility as a singer-songwriter to report the news.

I've accrued a kind of patience, I believe, loosely like change.

We should be as careful of our words as of our actions.

Within my body are all the sacred places of the world, and the most profound pilgrimage I can ever make is within my own body.

A politician... one that would circumvent God.

I spent my teens and early 20s shopping almost exclusively at thrift stores.