This is one of the reasons we need to transition: people can't validate an identity they can't see.

By coming out to ourselves, we free up the energy we spent keeping a part of ourselves hidden.

Prejudice usually can't survive close contact with the people who are supposed to be so despicable, which is why the propagandists for hate always preach separation.

If you live in a society that wishes you didn't exist, anything you do to make yourself happy disrupts its attempts to wipe you out, or at the very least, make you invisible.

When you're hurting another person, past a certain point you're cracking them open and whatever's inside them gets all over you. So you should kinda check out whether you want that to happen.

Responsibility without power is a really bad deal.

SM is an art. Doing it well requires more than a bag full of expensive whips and exotic electrical toys, a closet full of fetish clothes, or a basement filled with bondage furniture.

A lot of people who are depressed, I think, are suffering from blocked creativity.

If your relationship with someone is based on your desire for them to change into something radically different, there's no real closeness there, no real communication.

The scars are a way of reminding me that the past is real. They are honorable.

When it comes to your inner critic, my advice is to not take advice from someone who doesn't like you. That's like returning to the perpetrator for healing after you've been abused.

The soul might be silent but the servant of the soul has always got a voice and it has got one for a reason.

Don’t drown yourself in the pool of lies

A leader cannot avoid being hated. This hatred is directly proportional to his influence and power. A person who does not wish to be hated should avoid leadership roles.

The soul that loves God has its rest in God and in God alone. In all the paths that men walk in in the world, they do not attain peace until they draw nigh to hope in God.

Don't try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time.

I am an ark in the swift flood of time, and my companions, a fellowship. Who throws in with us sails into light.

The whole duty of man is embraced in the two principles of abstinence and patience: temperance in prosperity, and patient courage in adversity.

I'm not a diva. I'm a tadpole trying to be a frog.

Our Nation owes a lasting debt of gratitude to all those selfless members of our Armed Forces who have risked their own freedom and safety to defend the the lives and liberty of others.

I stand for judgment: answer: shall I have it?