It's absolutely essential that we have the same safeguards that straight couples do. But I want more than a 50 percent chance of success. I don't want to emulate that.

Be good to yourself 'cause nobody else has the power to make you happy.

I still believe that music is one of the greatest gifts that God gave to man.

I've done too many stupid things for there not to be movies made about me when I'm dead, so I might as well write the script.

Change is a stranger you have yet to know.

Without despair, we will share, and the joys of caring will not be erased. What has been, must never end, the joys of caring will not be replace.

People, you can never change the way they feel. Better let them do what they will. For they will, if you let them, steal your heart.

It's important to me that I should be free to express myself.

The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not.

I have to believe that somebody up there thinks I've still got some work to do.

I have never thought about my sexuality being right or wrong. To me it has always been a case of finding the right person.

She could just pack up and leave, but she does not visualize what's beyond ahead.

The barren branches may appear inelegant: They are, to the cook, the means to make his fire.

Think of it this way, " he rubbed a fist under his square jaw, "If we hadn't been on the same flight or at the same hotel, you would've had no one to spill your drinks on.

Men's men: be they gentle or simple they're much of a muchness.

The pure, frank sentiments we hold in our hearts are the only truthful sources of art.

Oh, I'm a survivor. My whole life has been surviving.

I'm interested in the movement of the eyes across the painting.

I have done my best. That is about all the philosophy of living one needs.

History may defeat the Christ but it nevertheless points to him as the law of life.

Let danger never turn you aside from the pursuit of honor or the service to your country ... Know that death is inevitable and the fame of virtue is immortal