There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo -- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.

What is faith? If you believe something because you have evidence for it, or rational argument, that is not faith. So faith seems to be believing something despite the absence of evidence or rational argument for it.

Peter Singer

Daddy loves you, but he smacks you, and he can shout at you and smash things, but Daddy still loves you. So when you get into a relationship with someone who does all of that, why would it be unusual?

Trisha Goddard

The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.

Alan Saporta

Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.

Christopher Lasch

My father would take me to the playground, and put me on mood swings.

Jay London

Nothing is so strong as gentleness and nothing is so gentle as real strength.

Ralph W. Sockman

Our stations in life, our difference of cultures, the pain-laid men who raised us forbid us to be us. They have brainwashed us. We feel we should believe the polarity between us.

Coco J. Ginger

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope.

Barbara Kingsolver

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Edmund Burke

In a republican nation, whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance

Thomas Jefferson

The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity.

Paul Theroux

You can never forget the past unless you face up to it.

Fan Wu