I hope that by just being a competent member and expressing informed views on issues that aren't related to issues of LGBT equality, Republicans see me as a general asset.

You cant not be changed by the experience of seeing extreme poverty. You start to want to think about ways in which you can make the world better.

I think it is important for someone like me to not run away from who I am but embrace it. LGBT people across the country need to know they have a friend in Congress.

I taught high school English for 24 years. I always teach my students to appreciate the beauty of language and to write poetically.

Tough time don't lasts-Tough People DO

Though our feelings come and go God's love for us does not.

Man is the only animal who causes pain to others with no other object than wanting to do so.

The wisest among us is very lucky never to have met the woman, be she beautiful or ugly, intelligent or stupid, who could drive him crazy enough to be fit to be put into an asylum.

What's been exciting for me is to read the scripts.

We're seeing a decline in religion in North America but, I hope, a rise in individual spirituality. Whatever that means to people.

Happiness isn't something that happens to you. It is what you yourself do and determine upon.

To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

To be good is to be in harmony with oneself. Discord is to be forced to be in harmony with others.

I love when people get songs wrong. I love when people take something from a song that's totally not what I intended!