I think most children who are adopted ultimately want to meet their biological parents and often do. I think that is an important journey for children who are adopted to go on.

I don't care if you hate me or love me, as long as I make you think.

With every breath, I'm deeper in you.

Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.

I became an overachiever to get approval from the world.

I want to be like Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, and John Lennon... but I want to stay alive.

I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs.

I always acted like a star long before I was one.

Better to live one year as a tiger, then a hundred as sheep.

Power is being told you're not loved and not being destroyed by it.

As much good as it does, social media can also encourage stupidity and degradation.

It's better to develop hobbies and interests than to have ideas about things.

In my neighborhood, everyone had an opinion on the local cantor. You didn't go to a synagogue to listen to the rabbi's sermon. You went to listen to the cantor. It was like a concert.

Fight only in direst need Not for lust or petty greed Honor those that do give birth Respect them well for their full worth

He that sings on friday, will weepe on Sunday.

I have always been involved in issue-based politics, not party politics - I was never really originally drawn to party politics.

Your whole life is really only all about that dear place in you where you know you’ve realized, you love, and you are reached.

Gender is an identity tenuously constituted in time, instituted in an exterior space through a stylized repetition of acts.

There's a Mother's Day and there's a Father's Day, but there's no Children's Day. It would mean a lot. World peace.

When the citizens of a society can see and hear their leaders, then that society should be seen as one.

Let's begin to cover the main street of America... just to see what the heck occurs on it.