You can't be a part-time man of principle.

You are axes, in a world of wood. And the wood remembers when it has been cut, even if the axe forgets.

Knowing yourself, knowing where you want to get, combining those things gives you the pragmatic steps.

In a country like America, there are places, many states here still where coming out means you lose your job, where coming out means division, where it means potentially abuse.

I wasn't going to let Jerry Sloan embarrass me, because basketball had a proper role in my life. I suspected my basketball philosophy wasn't the bottom line anyway.

I always think coming out is something that you do for people who really deserve it. It should be.

In my experience, it's only people who don't play sport at a professional level who think that there is anything remotely erotic about a locker room.

We need to accept that some people are camp and some people are butch. Some people are pretty and some people are average, but we all fit.

I just wanted to fit in, so probably early on I knew, but it was... social life was such a distant part of my existence when I was in school that I didn't even think about it too much.

I think in an ideal world celebrities do have a responsibility in many different areas to be role models.

I'm a nerd. I like to sit in the library. I don't like to sweat.

The only limitations you have are those limitations you accept.

Dear God, if one day I lose my hope and purpose, give me confidence that your destiny is better than anything I ever dreamed.

Don't go getting all shy on me now, Lana," he drawled, squeezing my sides with his hands

Few are the friends of a mans self, most those of his circumstances.

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.

The success of the second 'Austin Powers' caught us by surprise a little bit. We had decided not to do even a second one, unless the audience wanted it and we could do something better.

Valor is the soldier's adornment.

A surgeon would never hesitate to amputate a rotting hand, no matter how faithfully it had served its owner in the past.

You can keep your privacy in the world by keeping your product, not your personality, the star.

If there is anything in the world which I do firmly believe in, it is the universal validity of the law of causation.