I always felt safe and protected. My dad is 6'6" and 280 pounds, so I basically felt protected, and I aspire to have my kids feel the same way.

Hateful people put fear in other people.

Picking on another person in their mind justifies and makes their stature higher. People do it interracially. It's amazing how every race, every culture seems to have a culture they pick on.

I have 8-year-old twins, and I want them to grow up in a world where they can be anyone they want without any shame, without holding back, without being judged for it.

Even though [bullying] doesn't actually raise your stature, it might make you feel that way.

If you feel like you're not where you want to be in your life, rather than step on someone else's, raise your stature.

You can have your beliefs and have your faith, but don't try to impose it one me, and vice versa.

You can't discriminate against someone because of their race, color, or religion, but you can discriminate against someone because of their sexual preference, I find it to be abhorrent.

When I was younger, I had an older brother a year and a half older than me, so we always had each other, and I felt very fortunate in that regard.

I knew I loved you when the very thought of breaking your heart, broke mine.

History doesn't remember gardens.…You forgot the wise administrators, those who kept the peace, those who brought prosperity. You needn’t feel embarrassed, though. So did history.

An idea is only an idea until you breathe life into it.

Document the moments you feel most in love with yourself - what you’re wearing, who you’re around, what you’re doing. Recreate and repeat.

The common-sense notion that 'There is a time and place for everything' gets carried into a set of prescriptions which replicate the social order by assigning social meanings to spaces and times.

I don't give my weight. I weigh a hundred and plenty.

Most people end up owning a business by accident. Therefore, they don't usually have a thought process and a strategic plan in place.

I don't know if I could rebuild an airplane engine, but I know a little bit about rotors and rivets.

Discoveries made during the last hundred years have shown that liberalism is the best system to improve a country's well being.

The cosmic calendar is quite a fertile mode for communicating how small we are over time and space.