Hope will never be silent.
Burst down those closet doors once and for all, and stand up and start to fight.
If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door.
All young people, regardless of sexual orientation or identity, deserve a safe and supportive environment in which to achieve their full potential.
All men are created equal. No matter how hard they try, they can never erase those words. That is what America is about.
If you are not personally free to be yourself in that most important of all human activities … the expression of love … then life itself loses its meaning.
The fact that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than any other single reason. That, that my friends, that is true perversion!
80 Percent of the constraints, the factors that are holding you back from achieving your goals, are internal.
Don’t argue for other people’s weaknesses. Don’t argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it – immediately.
Being defeated is only a temporary condition; giving up is what makes it permanent.
Do not be afraid of spending quality time by yourself. Find meaning or dont find meaning but ‘steal’ some time and give it freely and exclusively to your own self. Opt for privacy and solitude. That doesnt make you antisocial or cause you to reject the rest of the world. But you need to breathe. And you need to be.
If you don’t see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.
No dream is too big. No challenge is too great. Nothing we want for our future is beyond our reach.
Some people make things happen, some people watch things happen, and some ask what happened.
Security represents your sense of worth, your identity, your emotional anchorage, your self-esteem, your basic personal strength or lack of it.
Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.
Send out a cheerful, positive greeting, and most of the time you will get back a cheerful, positive greeting. It’s also true that if you send out a negative greeting, you will, in most cases, get back a negative greeting.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.
There were no role models, there were no other people I knew who were dealing with the same issues that I was dealing with. I had no idea if this was a stage I was going through or not. But I go to the draft board in Brooklyn and I fill out the form and there was a question that said ‘Do you have homosexual tendencies?’ and I check yes. But where-ever I was on line I’d see people I went to high school with and I was afraid of anyone knowing this about me so I kept on falling back into line and falling back into line. If you said you had homosexual tendencies they sent you to a psychiatrist. He said ‘I see here you’ve checked the box?’ And I said ‘yup’. He said ‘So do you think you’d have a problem serving in the armed forces?’ I said well you know ‘So many men.’ And I was out of the service.
Look back in forgiveness, forward in hope, down in compassion, and up with gratitude.
It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever – the one who recognizes the challenge and does something about it.
