There are some people the gestation period is like an elephant's and it's just years and years before they're ready.

You are axes, in a world of wood. And the wood remembers when it has been cut, even if the axe forgets.

Knowing yourself, knowing where you want to get, combining those things gives you the pragmatic steps.

You can't be a part-time man of principle.

In a country like America, there are places, many states here still where coming out means you lose your job, where coming out means division, where it means potentially abuse.

I wasn't going to let Jerry Sloan embarrass me, because basketball had a proper role in my life. I suspected my basketball philosophy wasn't the bottom line anyway.

I always think coming out is something that you do for people who really deserve it. It should be.

In my experience, it's only people who don't play sport at a professional level who think that there is anything remotely erotic about a locker room.

We need to accept that some people are camp and some people are butch. Some people are pretty and some people are average, but we all fit.

I just wanted to fit in, so probably early on I knew, but it was... social life was such a distant part of my existence when I was in school that I didn't even think about it too much.

I think in an ideal world celebrities do have a responsibility in many different areas to be role models.

Glory is the sunshine of the dead

Once we’ve become Gods, And Superheroes, and Spidermen(ed) through the web of potential, what will be next?

I give you full credit for the discovery, I crawl, I grovel, my name is Watson, and you need not say what you were just going to say, because I admit it all.

I'm not into cold weather, I like warm weather.

I want us to raise the national minimum wage, because people who live in poverty should not - who work full-time should not still be in poverty.

There's the gift, there's the spirit, and there's the work-all three have to come together. If one of those things is off, it can stop you from becoming who you were meant to be.

My parents were determined to move into the middle class.

If a farmer does abandon his or her "tame" fields completely to nature, mistakes and destruction are inevitable.

I have always wanted a mistress who was fat, and I have never found one. To make a fool of me, they are always pregnant.

Courts of equity make their decrees so as to arrive at the justice of the case without violating the rules of law.