I don't need a set of message board points to tell me that people are hurting in my state. I know it because I've lived it.

Everyone that's ever seen 'Pose' who isn't trans or doesn't have any connection to the LGBTQ community has been given the opportunity to create empathetic relationships to the characters that they would not have otherwise been able to. That's super essential in helping counter homophobia and transphobia.

I feel bad for people in wheelchairs and people who have to use crutches.

Neighbors broke the news that my parents had been taken away by immigration officers, and just like that, my stable family life was over.

I say to people who care for people who are dying, if you really love that person and want to help them, be with them when their end comes close. Sit with them - you don't even have to talk. You don't have to do anything but really be there with them.

There are far too many people for us to think about each of them during our short stay on earth—like the thousands of books in a library we haven't time to read in an afternoon. But this is no excuse to cease browsing. For every now and then, we find that one book that reaches us deep inside and introduces us to ourselves. And, in someone else's story, we come to understand our own.

People talk of life's storms as if they are universal experiences. But they're not. Some people hear thunder while others touch lightning.

It is in the dark times that the light of friendship shines brightest. (The Walk - Chapter 19, Page 122

I'm no one important or famous, no matter. It is better to be loved by one person who knows your soul than millions who don't even know your phone number. I have loved and been loved as deeply as a man can hope for. Which makes me a lucky man. It also means that I have suffered. Life has taught me that to fly, you must first accept the possibility of falling.

Taylor, McKenna, Abigail, and Taylor simultaneously crouched over in pain.

To love someone is to desire their happiness. [Richelle Bach]

As appreciative as I had already been for their kindness, now I was astounded. In the midst of such heartbreak, this good couple had reached out to me in my pain. For the first time in a long while, I felt hope in humanity.