As soon as I started writing, other writers stopped wanting me acting in their shows - maybe they thought I was going to rewrite them.

Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

I do believe we're all connected. I do believe in positive energy. I do believe in the power of prayer. I do believe in putting good out into the world. And I believe in taking care of each other.

The great thing about suicide is that it's not one of those things you have to do now or you lose your chance. I mean, you can always do it later.

Nothing binds a people to their leader like a common enemy. Voters don’t change governments during war.

Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate.

Change your mind as often as possible. Just because you thought something yesterday doesn't mean you have to think it today. Don't ever become a prisoner of your own opinion

Time will tell us what we did and didn't do.

Anyone with a smart phone is a potential eyewitness cameraman capturing and transmitting stories at speeds that turn Reuter photos and traditional reporting into, well... yesterday’s news.

I guess a drag queen's like an oil painting: You gotta stand back from it to get the full effect.

When you are trapped in a cage with broken wings, freedom can seem like a faraway deeply buried treasure. But it is always within reach.

God will give me the place where I don't know, but I want to go to heaven because there is my friends are waiting for me.

It is defeat that lives on and takes the years to smother.

Indeed, the attempt to live according to the notion that the fragments are really separate is, in essence, what has led to the growing series of extremely urgent crises that is confronting us today.

Modern theologians are like a pack of dogs who spend most of their time sniffing each other's behinds.

Idea and experience will never coincide in the center; only through art and action are they united.

I love wearing trackies to lounge around the house in and the strange thing is, it doesn’t matter how many new ones I get I still tend to feel most comfortable in my old ones.

The most dangerous kind of person... is one who is afraid of his own shadow.

The education of the will is the object of our existence.

I want to go skydiving. I'd love to go to the Galapagos. Nature still excites me.