I don't need to think that I'm being loomed over my shoulder in order to behave in a way that's moral.

You are axes, in a world of wood. And the wood remembers when it has been cut, even if the axe forgets.

Knowing yourself, knowing where you want to get, combining those things gives you the pragmatic steps.

You can't be a part-time man of principle.

In a country like America, there are places, many states here still where coming out means you lose your job, where coming out means division, where it means potentially abuse.

I wasn't going to let Jerry Sloan embarrass me, because basketball had a proper role in my life. I suspected my basketball philosophy wasn't the bottom line anyway.

I always think coming out is something that you do for people who really deserve it. It should be.

In my experience, it's only people who don't play sport at a professional level who think that there is anything remotely erotic about a locker room.

We need to accept that some people are camp and some people are butch. Some people are pretty and some people are average, but we all fit.

I just wanted to fit in, so probably early on I knew, but it was... social life was such a distant part of my existence when I was in school that I didn't even think about it too much.

I think in an ideal world celebrities do have a responsibility in many different areas to be role models.

Power and control are more dangerous than any weapons.

Poetry lit fire in the vast forest of memories within you.

You can't tell how heavy somebody else's load is just from looking. The Lord doesn't give us more than we can carry

Don't give up your dreams.

Being bad. Discomfort with your body. Bad self image. All those things turn you into an artist. The same things that keep you from being in a proper marriage.

The experience of going to the other side to nirvana clarifies and simplifies your view of all things. You see the world with greater clarity, because it is not obscured by illusions.

Make it a part of every day's business to read and meditate on some portion of God's Word. Private means of grace are just as needful every day for our souls as food and clothing are for our bodies.

A blueprint for disaster in any society is when the elite are capable of insulating themselves.

When people disagreed with him he urged them to be objective.

One hundred rounds do not constitute fire power. One hit constitutes fire power.