I have 8-year-old twins, and I want them to grow up in a world where they can be anyone they want without any shame, without holding back, without being judged for it.

Hateful people put fear in other people.

Picking on another person in their mind justifies and makes their stature higher. People do it interracially. It's amazing how every race, every culture seems to have a culture they pick on.

Even though [bullying] doesn't actually raise your stature, it might make you feel that way.

If you feel like you're not where you want to be in your life, rather than step on someone else's, raise your stature.

I always felt safe and protected. My dad is 6'6" and 280 pounds, so I basically felt protected, and I aspire to have my kids feel the same way.

You can have your beliefs and have your faith, but don't try to impose it one me, and vice versa.

You can't discriminate against someone because of their race, color, or religion, but you can discriminate against someone because of their sexual preference, I find it to be abhorrent.

When I was younger, I had an older brother a year and a half older than me, so we always had each other, and I felt very fortunate in that regard.

You see how I tryTo reach with wordsWhat matters mostAnd how I fail.

She wasted all her school time wanting to be the age she is now, and she'll waste all the rest of her life trying to stay that age.

As my father always says, there’s no shame in being poor, but it can be damned inconvenient.

Rather than rewriting the law under the pretense of interpreting it, the Court should have left it to Congress to decide what to do about the Act's limitation of tax credits to state Exchanges.

Serving the emerging whole means paying attention to what's right here within my awareness, what's completely local, and surrendering to what's being asked of me now.

Speak or act with a pure mind, and happiness will follow you as your shadow, unshakable.

A poor spirit is poorer than a poor purse. A very few pounds a year would ease a man of the scandal of avarice.

I'm very proud of the way that I was raised, I'm very proud of the way that my parents raised me.

I would take plays and I would cut out all the other dialogue and make long monologues because I felt the other kids weren't taking it as seriously as I did.

Truth never lost ground by enquiry.