When I watched Ellen come out in '97, my jaw was on the floor. I thought, There are some people who break the doors down, hold them open, and some people who walk right through.

When you have the paparazzi hiding in the bushes outside your home, the only thing you can control is how you respond publicly.

There's a fine line between being private and being ashamed.

Just look at all the awards shows now. It has turned into a catwalk. You have to be wearing a certain designer, a certain dress, and everyone's critiquing.

Average. It was the worst, most disgusting word in the English language. Nothing meaningful or worthwhile ever came from that word.

And I somehow always felt less lonely when I was completely alone.

Most important, in order to find real happiness, you must learn to love yourself for the totality of who you are and not just what you look like.

My sexuality is a part of me that I really like. But it's not the totality of me.

True nobility isn't about being better than anyone else; it's about being better than you used to be.

Restriction generates yearning. You want what you cannot have.

I married him for a green card. We had a really great, caring relationship; it just obviously wasn't right for me.

Christianity is a Gospel of crisis. It proclaims unmistakably that this world’s days are numbered.

The cornerstone of the Roman legionnaires' astonishing fighting spirit can be attributed to their training.

In Israel, in order to be a realist, you must believe in miracles.

Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.

Anything that the private sector can do, the government can do it worse.

Make decisions about the President's personal security. He can overrule you, but don't ask him to be the one to counsel caution.

Don’t ever give up. Don’t see the obstacles, just the way around them. For me, of course it looked improbable, but not impossible. So as long as there was a way, I would not be discouraged.

He [ Vladimir Putin] would rather have a puppet as president of the United States.

When I begin a story at my desk, the window to my back, the path is not there. As I start to walk, I make the path.

Even the wisest men make fools of themselves about women, and even the most foolish women are wise about men