A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That's where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It's having backbone.
Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.
My house was bugged. They couldn't find any information on me being a subversive because I happen to love America; I just don't like some of the things the government is doing.
My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.
Discipline and concentration are a matter of being interested.
It's a piece of property that, if you're going to have a development out here, you need to have a golf course because you need to take care of the effluent water being created by the development.
A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood.
I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault.
The way I approach the character isn't about being gay or straight. It's just about who you love. Gender has very little to do with it.
I'm not ashamed of being gay, never have been and never will be. For that I have no apologies.
Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.
I live for being with the people I love and to live as happily as possible.
I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.
You have to protect yourself, your body, your being. You cannot treat it badly; you have to keep it, make as sensitive as possible.