Everybody’s journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

My heart aches for America and its deceived people.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?

For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it’s time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.

Vulnerability is about showing up and being seen. It’s tough to do that when we’re terrified about what people might see or think.

Perhaps one of the most difficult things for us to do is to choose a notable and joyous dress for men. There would be more joy in life if we were to accustom ourselves to use all the beautiful colours we can in fashioning our own clothes.

You have to give others the opportunity to love who you love. If they don’t accept it, it’s their loss.

I am God’s vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.

Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.

There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.

If I wouldn’t have found Courtney, I probably would have carried on with a bisexual lifestyle.

Insanity in individuals is something rare – but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

I’m a girls‘ girl. I have guy friends, but the problem with having guy friends is, like, I always get linked to them, and they’ll end up in a slideshow of people I’ve apparently dated on the Internet.

We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.

Irrespective of age, we mourn for those loved and lost. Mourning is one of the deepest expressions of pure love.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

My personal feelings are my personal feelings. I don’t want to express them with anyone except for a very few people. It doesn’t do any good. It really doesn’t.

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.

As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place.

Everything is an open book. I don’t speak on other people’s hardship, but if it happened in my life or something that has been an experience on my particular journey, I’m going to talk about it. That’s what my fan base appreciates the most. I’m universal. You can relate to the things I say or that I go through.

I like to be in control of how I look and how I feel and how I act.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

I mean, what would I be doing if I couldn’t write? But that fortunately hasn’t proved to be the case and I can read any day. I still read a lot, and I can write any day, but much more slowly and fewer words.

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

He who hath many friends hath none.

I’ve never had a dislike for men. I’ve been badly treated by some. But I’ve been loved greatly by some. I married a lot of them.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

I was fortunate and I was lucky that I had a couple of people in my life who cared about me. I had good, loving parents.

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.

I’ve got a crush on my backing singer.

We must be our own before we can be another’s.

There is no such thing as a lovers‘ oath.

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.

Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.

The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

I am criticised for not celebrating my goals enough. I am very happy from within, very calm. I just don’t celebrate. I celebrate inside.

Stop this attitude that older people ain’t any good anymore! We’re as good as we ever were – if we ever were any good.

I think the first duty of society is justice.

Understanding is a two-way street.

When you face a ‚performance‘ that might provoke the ‚I’m scared‘ response, choose love and approach your opportunity as a chance to dance with God. It’s more fun than ‚Dancing with the Stars!‘

Man’s enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

I know love is the answer.

Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.

Marriage is the most wonderful thing ever.

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

Our focus needs to be less on what our legacy’s going to be or how we can control each other and more how we can give to each other.

I leave the genre labeling to other people. I really do. If I were to think too hard about it, that would stifle you creatively. If you think too hard about who other people want you to be as an artist, it stops you from being who you want to be as an artist.

Politics have no relation to morals.

Mostly, my flying has been solo, but the preparation for it wasn’t. Without my husband’s help and encouragement, I could not have attempted what I have. Ours has been a contented and reasonable partnership, he with his solo jobs and I with mine. But always with work and play together, conducted under a satisfactory system of dual control.

Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.

I wouldn’t say I’m a feminist, but I don’t like girls pretending to be stupid because it’s easier.

We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.