When you're a kid growing up, and you think you're gay, you know that you're different you're often teased and it can really destroy your self-esteem. But sports can be great for building self-esteem.

What's done, is done

William Shakespeare

I've always been suspicious of collective truths.

Eugene Ionesco

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

Abraham Lincoln

Property is organized robbery.

George Bernard Shaw

The other day I was reading a blog and I linked over to Streisand's Web site, and it was amazing politically. She's so insightful and incisive. And she also says whatever she wants.

Liz Phair

So far, 44 States, or 88 percent of the States, have enacted laws providing that marriage shall consist of a union between a man and a woman. Only 75 percent of the States are required to approve a constitutional amendment.

Jack Kingston

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

Samuel Johnson

How a minority, reaching majority, seizing authority, hates a minority!

Leonard H. Robbins

It seems to me that perfection of means and confusion of goals seems to characterize our age.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whatever the field under discussion, those who engage in debate must not only believe in each other's good faith, but also in their capacity to arrive at the truth.

W. H. Auden

To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To have the kind of year you want to have, something has to happen that you can't explain why it happened. Something has to happen that you can't coach.

Bobby Bowden