My feelings for Ellen overrode all of my fear about being out as a lesbian. I had to be with her, and I just figured I'd deal with the other stuff later.

A man of talent will strive for money and reputation; but the spring that moves genius to the production of its works is not as easy to namehttp://www.paulstiles.org/Design/On%20Genius.htm

Arthur Schopenhauer

We can have no '50-50' allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.

Theodore Roosevelt

Mr Wells [???]belongs to the non military middle class. The thunder of guns, the jingle of spurs, the catch in the throat when the old flag goes by, leave him manifestly cold. He has an invincible hatred of the fighting, hunting, swash buckling side of life

George Orwell

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

I loved 'White Christmas' for the music aspect. I was into musical theater.

Lana Parrilla

O, while you live, tell truth, and shame the Devil!

William Shakespeare

To have great poets, there must be great audiences too.

Walt Whitman

It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realise his ideal. But the true tragedy that dogs the steps of most artists is that they realise their ideal too absolutely. For, when the ideal is realised, it is robbed of its wonder and its mystery, and becomes simply a new starting-point for an ideal that is other than itself.

Oscar Wilde, from Intentions

If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!

Mark Twain

Noble fathers have noble children.

Euripides

Where is home? I've wondered where home is, and I realized, it's not Mars or someplace like that, it's Indianapolis when I was nine years old. I had a brother and a sister, a cat and a dog, and a mother and a father and uncles and aunts. And there's no way I can get there again.

Kurt Vonnegut

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.

Alfred North Whitehead