Firefighters, police officers and state troopers place themselves in harm's way every day, every week, every year.

I try to be grateful for the abundance of the blessings that I have, for the journey that I'm on and to relish each day as a gift.

To be able to love and live in freedom means to be able to make godly decisions. To make godly decisions we have to surrender our egos and all the falsity and shame that goes with it.

Throughout my life, I have grappled with my own identity, who I am. As a young child, I often felt ambivalent about myself; in fact, confused.

Because of an adulterous affair I shall leave office in November.

I am resigning because my secret leaves the governor's office vulnerable.

I engaged in an adult consensual affair with another man.

I'm on the board of a national group called Faith in America. It's designed to fight religious-based bigotry.

No relief was forthcoming from my then-Catholic faith, which said the practice of homosexuality was a 'mortal sin' subject to damnation.

I'm grateful for my brokenness. I'm grateful for my humility.

At a point in every person's life, one has to look deeply into the mirror of one's soul and decide one's unique truth in the world, not as we may want to see it or hope to see it, but as it is.

You see, " she concluded miserably, "when I can call like that to him across space--I belong to him. He doesn't love me--he never will--but I belong to him.

Wasn't it what her father always warned her about? Don't jump off a bridge because a cute guy tells you to?

It is to be doubted whether anybody who said good-bye to Bert had any faith or interest whatsoever in the life everlasting. This life had, some of them thought, been quite bad enough.

Why did the regime put me in prison in the first place? I was put in prison for six years and it has been all illegal.

One should not run on a new road.

Hollywood - that's a place where love is viewed both pragmatically and philosophically in the saying, 'Tis better to have loved and divorced than never to have had any publicity at all.

You're sitting on my bed," he said. "Did yo think I was under it?

The kids never listen to you, especially the youngest ones.

I'm not going to talk about supporting somebody for a long time. I don't know who the two party candidates are going to be.

Greatness can never be over because you can lay it down for a minute.