My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

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

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.

When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said – and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded – ‚It’s like hair color. It’s nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It’s not a subject.‘ This was a very healthy attitude.

I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.

Most of us have hoped and prayed for something to happen a certain way, but it didn’t. And when this happened, we had a choice to make: to react with offense toward God or to trust Him anyway.

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.

Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.

No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

I love New York. I’m a guy for whom a New York accent is a comforting thing.

When I think of the love I feel for each member of our family, I sense, to a slight degree, the love that our Heavenly Father bears for His children.

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

Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.

You don’t want to live your life and then meet someone. You want to share your life with someone. That’s what I’m missing right now.

I love my daddy. My daddy’s everything. I hope I can find a man that will treat me as good as my dad.

I don’t have a problem with Hulk Hogan. People say things and do things, and who am I to judge?

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

Everyone has been in love, at some point or another.

I don’t fear anybody… at all.

Jesus is a divine guest inside of you all the time – one who loves, understands, sees and hears you. He wants to live in oneness with you… to be the centerpiece of everything you do.

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

My parents taught me never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or their religion.

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

If I get married, I want to be very married.

The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

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

I believe in the spirit of equality and the spirit of this country as one of love and compassion and kindness.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Do not rebuke mockers, or they will hate you; rebuke the wise, and they will love you.

Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.

If you love something – and there are things that I love – you do want more and more and more of it, but that’s not the way to produce good work.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

I love being a dad. I just love it.

He that loves to be flattered is worthy o‘ the flatterer.

As apostles and prophets, we are concerned not only for our children and grandchildren but for yours as well – and for each of God’s children.

The only big things I’ve purchased are my dad’s heart valve and a Rolls-Royce for my parents, for their anniversary. And that was only because my dad had a Lady Gaga license plate on our old car and it was making me crazy because he was getting followed everywhere, so I bought him a new car.

He didn’t come out of my belly, but my God, I’ve made his bones, because I’ve attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I’m so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.

We had to go on and do the work of the court and we did.

America is the land of the second chance – and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.

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.

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

Nothing is so discouraging to an actor than to have to work for long hours upon hours in brightly lighted interior sets.

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.

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature’s delight.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.

When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

I have long understood that losing always comes with the territory when you wander into the gambling business, just as getting crippled for life is an acceptable risk in the linebacker business. They both are extremely violent sports, and pain is part of the bargain. Buy the ticket, take the ride.

Pay attention, don’t let life go by you. Fall in love with the back of your cereal box.

All missionaries, younger and older, serve with the sole hope of making life better for other people.

As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die – and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.

Marriage is scary to me, man.