A reading of the Declaration of Independence on the steps of a building is widely covered. The events that started the American Revolution were the meetings in homes, pubs, on street corners.

Rights are won only by those who make their voices heard.

Freedom is too enormous to be slipped under a closet door.

I know that you cannot live on hope alone, but without it, life is not worth living. And you...And you...And you...Gotta give em hope.

Hope will never be silent.

The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, that my friends, is true perversion.

If I turned around every time somebody called me a faggot, I'd be walking backward - and I don't want to walk backward.

All men are created equal. Now matter how hard they try, they can never erase those words. That is what America is about.

I finally reached the point where I knew I had to become involved or shut up.

Hope is never silent.

We will not win our rights by staying quietly in our closets.

There is no substitute for the strength that blesses a couple when they work together.

If you don't have a record to run on, you paint your opponent as someone to run from.

I stay off the Internet.

Among mathematicians, even in those days, the reputation of being a good Glass Bead Game player meant a great deal; it was equivalent to being a very good mathematician.

There isn't, unfortunately, any way of discovering whether you can write a publishable novel except by writing it.

Their fingers seemed to fit together in just the right way- effortlessly clasped,like perfect complements.

Wrong is an addictive, repetitive story; Right is where the movement is.

If you're looking for a deep album or you're looking for me to talk about past situations, it's not even about that. It's just 14 hot records that are gonna make you dance.

My goal is to try to get people into a state of generalized agnosticism, not agnosticism about God alone, but agnosticism about everything.

In the temple we can find peace. The blessings of the temple are priceless.