I’ve reached the point where I hardly care whether I live or die. The world will keep on turning without me, and I can’t do anything to change events anyway.

When you put on a uniform, there are certain inhibitions that you accept.

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

You can’t do something forever.

We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.

I didn’t know any gay people in my childhood.

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Please accept my resignation. I don’t care to belong to any club that will have me as a member.

I was born on a full moon. Both my children were born on full moons, too. Some people say that’s scary. It is what it is, man, I don’t be trippin‘. I couldn’t tell God when I wanted to be born.

When you love and accept yourself, when you know who really cares about you, and when you learn from your mistakes, then you stop caring about what people who don’t know you think.

Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

I refuse to allow any man-made differences to separate me from any other human beings.

Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you, you will be neither successful nor happy.

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

Reality has a way of intruding. Reality eventually intrudes on everything.

We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.

Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.

I thought I would try to be gay for a while, but I’m just more sexually attracted to women. But I’m really glad that I found a few gay friends, because it totally saved me from becoming a monk or something.

I don’t suffer of anything that I’ve lost.

I love imperfections.

I know people said I wasn’t selling out in America, but that was entirely untrue. We sold out all over the world, and every night I looked out into the fans and those front rows that you’re talking about, the tears, the honesty, the inability to not be completely overjoyed because they felt accepted.

Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.

We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that’s going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.

My gold, my money couldn’t stop cancer from appearing on my body. If they can’t save me, then I don’t need them.

I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.

I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.

I love diversity.

Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.

As far as I’m concerned, it’s a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be overrun with dullards, bums, and hacks, hag-ridden with myopia, apathy, and complacence, and generally stuck in a bog of stagnant mediocrity.

We all gonna die eventually from something or other, but don’t be a wimp. Put up a good fight.

Gays are some of the nicest, kindest, most loving people in the world.

I am not promising that God will give you everything you want. There are times when we want things that God knows would not be good for us.

I think that there’s no doubt that as I see friends, families, children of gay couples who are thriving, you know, that has an impact on how I think about these issues.

We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can’t cope with is therefore your own problem.

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.

Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn’t accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else’s insistence or someone else’s whim or convenience.

I’m not concerned with your liking or disliking me… All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that’s how we’ve got to live.

Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I’m not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it.

I’m very picky; I’m never happy with anything. It’s so hard to give the record away and accept that you’re done.

The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.

Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

God tells us not to judge one another, no matter what anyone’s sexual preferences are or if they’re black, brown or purple.

What’s done can’t be undone.

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day.

I have impeached myself by resigning.

I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow.

I do have a lot of gays in my family now, but some will never come out.

I don’t go down the road of condemning.

Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Every once in a while, you let a word or phrase out and you want to catch it and bring it back. You can’t do that. It’s gone, gone forever.

It doesn’t matter who likes you or doesn’t like you, all that matters is that God likes you. He accepts you, he approves of you.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.