Quotes

I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who may have achieved whatever but to be a part of an ongoing historical movement.

It’s really difficult for me. Language, I am sorry that I haven’t. I think I just always expected that you learn a word in place of a word and when I discovered how difficult the grammar was and learning that was very discouraging for me.

Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about.

In the past, I had my idols but today I enjoy learning from all the soccer I watch.

Since narcissism is fueled by a greater need to be admired than to be liked, psychologists might use that fact as a therapeutic lever – stressing to patients that being known as a narcissist will actually cause them to lose the respect and social status they crave.

The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness.

He who is not impressed by sound advice, lacks faith.

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War Two. We have everything we need except political will, but political will is a renewable resource.

It’s a wonderful side effect of what we’re doing, to give someone the strength to come out of the closet to their family, or simply present themselves aesthetically in a way they feel happy with, whether or not their friends are going to be allowed to like them anymore.

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

My parents are the coolest of the cool on every single level, and it’s because they have a deep appreciation for every moment of their lives.

Drug abuse is a medical disease that requires medical professionals.

When you’re told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn’t going to leak.

To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can’t eat it.

I support health care for people. I want people well taken care of. But I also want health care that we can afford as a country. I have people and friends closing down their businesses because of Obamacare.