When you've seen prejudice, you understand that we aren't finished, that we're still perfecting this American experiment.

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.

A pardon for Edward Snowden would be good for America and would help burnish the president's legacy as one of the primary defenders of human rights.

I state for the record that I have never sought funds from any POW family, nor led them to believe in any way that we were going on a mission to rescue their specific missing loved one.

Girls say it's hard to find nice guys. It's actually really easy. It's just all nice guys are ugly.

may came home with a smooth round stone as small as a world and as large as alone.

I'd kill myself if I was as fat as Marilyn Monroe.

Lecture is the transfer of the notes of the lecturer to the notes of the student without passing through either.

Life gives nothing to man without labor.

Authority pisses me off. I think everyone should be able to drink and get loud whenever they want.

Historians, only things of weight, Results of persons, or affairs of State, Briefly, with truth and clearness should relate; Laconic shortness memory feeds.

Inuring children gently to suffer some degrees of pain without shrinking, is a way to gain firmness to their minds, and lay a foundation for courage and resolution in the future part of their lives.

It troubles me that people speak about writing for money as ugly and distasteful.