Once you feel loved by the universe, you’re already accepted, and you’re not really concerned about offending people.

Glam really did plant seeds for a new identity. I think a lot of kids needed that – that sense of reinvention. Kids learned that however crazy you may think it is, there is a place for what you want to do and who you want to be.

I think what’s important is for us to decipher what is honest and what is dishonest and be accepting of those things and not operating from fear.

The Lord can give, and the Lord can take away. I might be herding sheep next year.

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

No one has done a study on this, as far as I can tell, but I think Facebook might be the first place where a large number of people have come out. We didn’t create that – society was generally ready for that. I think this is just part of the general trend that we talked about, about society being more open, and I think that’s good.

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

I believe alien life is quite common in the universe, although intelligent life is less so. Some say it has yet to appear on planet Earth.

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

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

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.

If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.

I always like to create things that get attention. It used to be a problem when I wasn’t famous. Now, I can do whatever I want and people have to accept it.

I always wanted to be loved.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

I believe that one key to success is to accept truth, no matter how it’s spoken.

The self is hateful.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe.

In the divine milieu, all the elements of the universe touch each other by that which is most inward and ultimate in them. There they concentrate, little by little, all that is purest and most attractive in them without loss and without danger of subsequent corruption.

Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer’s no. That’s not America. Is there something wrong with some seven-year-old Muslim American kid believing that he or she could be president?

Mozart’s music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe.

There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or lives. It is no blind law; for no blind law can govern the conduct of living beings.

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

I’m comfortable in my own skin, no matter how far it’s stretched. Ha ha.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

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.

I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another when the best fruit is.

Millions of people die every day. Everyone’s got to go sometime.

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

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.

The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one’s never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.

Whatever I will become will be what God has chosen for me.

When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair, there is no hope.

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

I want to know why the universe exists, why there is something greater than nothing.

I’m in awe of the universe, but I don’t necessarily believe there’s an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic.

There is nothing your highest self wants more than peace. This peace makes you feel worthy of all of the richest blessings of the universe, and when you radiate this out into the world, it is returned to you without fail.

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

Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way.

So long as the universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the universe is really completely self-contained, having no boundary or edge, it would have neither beginning nor end: it would simply be. What place, then, for a creator?

Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things – he never said that gay people should be condemned. I personally think it is very fine for gay people to be married in civil ceremonies.

Modern science says: ‚The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.‘ From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom.

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

A friend doesn’t go on a diet because you are fat.

If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

Just as the humble, unassuming, assenting ‚O.K.‘ has deposed the more affirmative ‚Yes,‘ so the little cringe and hesitation and approximation of ‚like‘ are a help to young people who are struggling to negotiate the shoals and rapids of ethnic identity, the street, and general correctness.

If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?

God didn’t make a mistake when He made you. You need to see yourself as God sees you.

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

You should never give up your inner self.

It was Einstein’s dream to discover the grand design of the universe, a single theory that explains everything. However, physicists in Einstein’s day hadn’t made enough progress in understanding the forces of nature for that to be a realistic goal.

Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we’re atheist. Our existence is beyond our understanding. No one has an answer.

I can encourage my daughter to love her body, but what really matters are the observations she makes about my relationship with my own body.

There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.

I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There’s no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it.