I feel that I've been very fortunate in the films that I have gotten and that I've chosen to do.

It's good to get out of the closet and talk about it and find out other people's views.

I will say that my personal business is my personal business. And I will leave it at that.

I smile so much at the theater my face hurts when I leave.

There is going to be a hundred thousand doors slammed in your face before one opens, so feel ok about taking rejection.

The most beautiful thing is telling someone you love them, because you can only love another person if you love yourself

Honestly, there was a time after I came out that I really did not think I would be working again.

So the characters that I choose, I like to make sure that they have depth and that they have some sort of bite. It's more fun.

There’s a fear that grasps each individual and what they think is right and what they think is wrong.

It doesn't matter if a critic pans or praises my movies, I am only concerned about that one audience member and what their experience is.

They don't teach you just how to be in school. There's no class on that. There’s no multiple choice test for Why Do I Feel This Way?

The map is not the territory, " Snicket's chaperon advises him. "That's an expression which means the world does not match the picture in our heads.

If we cannot come together to pause, to respect our dead and the heroic lives of meaning they led, then ours is truly a civilization lost.

Today we are confronted with reality on the vastest scale mankind has known and this puts a greater responsibility on the photographer.

The circumstances and events that we see as setbacks are oftentimes the very things that launch us into periods of intense spiritual growth

Jesus is an example. We have other examples, including many of our ancestors as role models who understood the inner meaning of our orientation.

I wish to become the greatest player in the world. I want to uphold the honor of India, the USA and of my coach and make basketball a prominent sport in India.

Democracy is alive, and like any other living thing it either flourishes and grows or withers and dies. There is no in-between. It is freedom and life or dictatorship and death.

Do not try and do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than you do it perfectly. It is their war, and you are to help them, not win it for them.

Sure as the most certain sure, plumb in the uprights, well entretied, braced in the beams, Stout as a horse, affectionate, haughty, electrical, I and this mystery here we stand.

If people only made prudent marriages, what a stop to population there would be!