You cant not be changed by the experience of seeing extreme poverty. You start to want to think about ways in which you can make the world better.

I think it is important for someone like me to not run away from who I am but embrace it. LGBT people across the country need to know they have a friend in Congress.

I taught high school English for 24 years. I always teach my students to appreciate the beauty of language and to write poetically.

I hope that by just being a competent member and expressing informed views on issues that aren't related to issues of LGBT equality, Republicans see me as a general asset.

My artwork isn't evolving, it's deconstructing, and I don't know why.

She was mourning all her life - not for her husband, who had released her with his death, but for her own dead heart.

You shouldn’t never regret something that made you smile

Judgement is not punishment, judgment is verdict. Judgement always gives an opportunity for life to change.

15 minutes a day! Give me just this and I'll prove I can make you a new man.

Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.

I am the animal at the head of the pack. … I either get eaten, or I get the good grass.

I don't regard that as a Guardian Angle. I really do think, in a sense, that we are our own Guardian Angles. But we don't listen to ourselves.

I don't think anyone wants a movie on time that's not worth your time.

Therefore today we have an absolutely sufficient level of gold and foreign currency reserves in order to ensure economic stability and sustainable foreign trade turnover.