My parents were exclude from rights as farm workers, though that has to change.

When I made the decision to transition, I honestly had no idea what it would be like for me to live as female. The only thing I knew for sure was that pretending to be male was slowly killing me.

The hardest part has been learning how to take myself seriously when the entire world is constantly telling me that femininity is always inferior to masculinity

Life is like a roller coaster- it has its ups and downs but in the end you have smiles and giggles because you know...you did it.

Sometimes we do that to ourselves -- we pit our desires against one another. We insist unnecessarily on seeing one aspect of our personality as being at odds with the rest of ourselves.

Be happy when you don't notice that you're getting old, it means you have had a great life so far.

Dr. Beall gave him the first shot, followed closely by the second.He said, "I'll check for a heartbeat."I said, "You don't need to. I can see it in his eyes."Dewey was gone.

How could the eagle-eyed politicians of The Hague, who specialized in pointing out the tiniest specks in other people’s eyes, overlook someone riding a racist coach in their own neighborhood?

When the bonfire of love still smolders in the wake of emotional convulsions, seeds of regret and remorse may endlessly linger about on the path of life. ("Taken for a ride)

One remembers horrors, I think, for the rest of one's life, but memories do not always remain so sharp, and with time, and new circumstance, do not affect us so powerfully.

The musical scale is a convention which circumscribes the area of potentiality and permits construction within those limits in its own particular symmetry.

I think the move by Mr. Greenspan was welcomed by everyone here.

He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.

You know what truth is? [...] It's some crazy thing my neighbor believes. If I want to make friends with him, I ask him what he believes. He tells me, and I say, "Yeah, yeah - ain't it the truth?

Fear will bind you closer than love, or hate, and it works a hell of a lot quicker.

When we give it all, we can live with ourselves - regardless of the results.