I have tasted freedom. I will not give up that which I have tasted.

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.

You have to be wowed enough with your gift to wow the world with it.

Don’t be deceived by the thoughts of obscurity that lingers around your head. Go and shine the light in you.

Sometimes you gotta let go. It's hard to walk away from something you love, really hard. But there are times when it's the only sensible thing to do.

To do something for someone or something you loved- England or Shakespeare or a dog or the Hodbins or history- wasn't a sacrifice at all. Even if it cost you your freedom, your life, your youth.

He (Winston Churchill) mobilized the English language and sent it into battle to steady his fellow countrymen. . . .

One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

bitterness hardly cares what food it eats.

A heart is a heart in a child or a man.

Greek philosophy departs from the assumption that we can understand the world autonomously using our rational faculties. Islam is not saying this.

A great proportion of the wretchedness which has embittered married life, has originated in a negligence of trifles.