If I do a good job, people won't care if I am green or have three heads.

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.

Leaders act with visions

Men seek a great deal, but fatally close, albeit very different, is one's pride in proving oneself right with one's zeal for finding the truth.

Our first impressions are generated by our experiences and our environment, which means that we can change our first impressions . . . by changing the experiences that comprise those impressions.

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

We're always going to remind ourselves of our mistakes and how we do things differently, trying to be a better person or whatever.

We are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth.

In the past, it was easier to believe in my own effectiveness. If I worked hard, with good colleagues and good ideas, we could make a difference. But now, I sincerely doubt that.

A failure becomes just one time at bat if you refuse to let it defeat you.

History has a point of view; it cannot be all things to all people.