We will not win our rights by staying quietly in our closets.

Rights are won only by those who make their voices heard.

Freedom is too enormous to be slipped under a closet door.

I know that you cannot live on hope alone, but without it, life is not worth living. And you...And you...And you...Gotta give em hope.

Hope will never be silent.

The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, that my friends, is true perversion.

If I turned around every time somebody called me a faggot, I'd be walking backward - and I don't want to walk backward.

All men are created equal. Now matter how hard they try, they can never erase those words. That is what America is about.

I finally reached the point where I knew I had to become involved or shut up.

Hope is never silent.

I like to sit in the window and watch the cute boys walk by.

When you get lost in a really strange place, nothing is more comforting than found your friend whom you trust and can show the way.

God seemed to have become a brand, a packaging, and people purchase this trusted brand with such faith and devotion that they no longer care who the vendor is.

There's a tendency to look at investments in isolation. Investors focus on the risk of individual securities.

Karma is simply the law of cause and effect in action. All moments and occurrences are caused by other moments and occurrences that preceded them in an endless, causal chain.

I love to write. It's my first love.

Often people fail to start or complete a task because they don't see any connection between what they're doing and what they really want to accomplish in life.

All my life I have studies the peculiar powers of music. It has a force of its own that few would deny.

If you're trying to hide something, you wouldn't keep getting away with it for 10 years. Nobody is that clever.

I don't believe in, and I am a devout non-believer, in playing new songs live if the subjected and pathetic crowd has not heard them before because I consider it like mass psychosis and genocidal.

The messages our kids receive from teachers, coaches--and even, with the best intentions, from us - can push them toward pride or despair...toward self-righteousness or self-hatred.