"A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives."

"We presume that we would be ready for battle if confronted with a great crisis, but it is not the crisis that builds something within usa€”it simply reveals what we are made of already."

"Nothing in the world is as certain as death."

"Gifts allow us to demonstrate exactly how little we know about a person. And nothing pisses a person off more than being shoved into the wrong pigeonhole."

"It does not take sharp eyes to see the sun and the moon, nor does it take sharp ears to hear the thunderclap. Wisdom is not obvious. You must see the subtle and notice the hidden to be victorious."

"Lakes, rivers, streams...all are water and all travel to the same destination. So it is with religion."

"When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves."

"This is a celebration of individual freedom, not of homosexuality. No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love. The only queer people are those who don't love anybody."

"Every time you get angry, you poison your own system."

"If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: 'It seemed a good idea at the time.'"

"Words are the pen of the heart, but music is the pen of the soul."

"Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation."