I learned how to sign because when I was growing up in California in order to get into college you needed two semesters of language to get into a University of California school.

Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.

It's okay to be a fat man. It's prestige and power and all of that. But fat women are seen as just lazy and stupid and having no self-control.

The universe is like a pension plan. It will match your investment.

I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf.

So instead of beating myself up for being fat, I think it's a miracle that I laugh every day and walk through my life with pride, because our culture is unrelenting when it comes to large people.

Waiting, waiting, waiting. All my life, I've been waiting for my life to begin, as if somehow my life was ahead of me, and that someday I would arrive at it.

People in this country haven't stopped hating fat people, but they've become more kind to me, since in our culture, even though we hate our fat people, we love our celebrities even more.

I can either cross the street, or I can keep waiting for another few years of green lights to go by.

Handsome, thin, sophisticated men often fall madly in love with larger women, we just never see it on TV.

One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other.

Being a single parent on a part-time basis is tricky to navigate. That is what a racing widow has to do.

Think I'll miss you forever, Like the stars miss the sun in the morning sky.

Despair and Genius are too oft connected

What I admire in Columbus is not his having discovered a new world but his having gone to search for it on the faith of an opinion.

Many scholars have complained of our tendency to see history only in conflicts, but I am not convinced they are right. It is in conflict that our values are exposed.

It was the first follower that transformed the lone nut into a leader.

If I could explain, I wouldn't need to dance!

Love of truth shows itself in this, that a man knows how to find and value the good in everything.

But I know also that still more interesting discoveries will be made that I have not the imagination to describe - and I am awaiting them, full of curiosity and enthusiasm.

I was into playing American music, especially the blues.