We are so clothed in rationalization and dissemblance that we can recognize but dimly the deep primal impulses that motivate us.

To know a little less and to understand a little more: that, it seems to me, is our greatest need.

It is the ultimate wisdom of the mountains that a man is never more a man than when he is striving for what is beyond his grasp.

It was not a mere man he was holding, but a giant; or a block of granite. The pull was unendurable. The pain unendurable.

The shortest distance between two people is a smile.

One who is wise is rich, one who is virtuous is wealthy, one who is happy is affluent, and one who is loving is prosperous.

Nothing belonged to her. She had no home. With no home and no place and now freedom coming to her, she felt an unusual surge of courage.

Every new generation of LGBT Americans needs to be inspired by leaders who come out - whether in Congress, the nonprofit sector, the NFL, or corner offices of Fortune 100 companies.

That would bring tears to the eyes of a rocking chair.

Mortified at the speed with which intimacy evaporates.

we're all wounded in some way, im just tryin to heal!

I thought that being king meant I didn't have to kill people myself. I see know that was another misconception.

How can anybody hate nurses? Nobody hates nurses. The only time you hate a nurse is when they're giving you an enema.

[Self-defense is] justly called the primary law of nature, so it is not, neither can it be in fact, taken away by the laws of society.