Throughout my life, I have grappled with my own identity, who I am. As a young child, I often felt ambivalent about myself; in fact, confused.

I try to be grateful for the abundance of the blessings that I have, for the journey that I'm on and to relish each day as a gift.

Firefighters, police officers and state troopers place themselves in harm's way every day, every week, every year.

To be able to love and live in freedom means to be able to make godly decisions. To make godly decisions we have to surrender our egos and all the falsity and shame that goes with it.

Because of an adulterous affair I shall leave office in November.

I am resigning because my secret leaves the governor's office vulnerable.

I engaged in an adult consensual affair with another man.

I'm on the board of a national group called Faith in America. It's designed to fight religious-based bigotry.

No relief was forthcoming from my then-Catholic faith, which said the practice of homosexuality was a 'mortal sin' subject to damnation.

I'm grateful for my brokenness. I'm grateful for my humility.

At a point in every person's life, one has to look deeply into the mirror of one's soul and decide one's unique truth in the world, not as we may want to see it or hope to see it, but as it is.

After all, what is education, if not the unparalleled means to transcend the self- imposed physical limits of the mind and the body.

Grass is greener at other people’s feet because they watered it. You need not to let your environment control you

I went searching in a foreign land and found my way home.

I feel privileged to be a U.N. ambassador. It gives me an opportunity to use my voice to help raise awareness about important social and environmental issues.

Failure is not an option. Failure is a prerequisite.

We've become a nation of con men, living by selling double glazing to each other.

Swing is so much more than a dance, it's a way of life. The music gets stuck in your mind and the dance is in your heart and the whole scene is engraved on your soul. You can fly.

Art and the saints are the greatest apologetics for our faith.

One writer, for instance, excels at a plan or a title page, another works away at the body of the book, and a third is a dab at an index.

The films I like to watch are when they make it relatable to human audiences.