Fixing is the illness model; acceptance is the identity model; which way any family goes reflects their assumptions and resources.

I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.

When a church manipulates the law to say, "These people are lesser," it takes a lot of resilience to hold your head up and say, "I am not lesser!" Some people can do it and some cannot; and some of those people who cannot will be destroyed.

It is important not to suppress your feelings altogether when you are depressed. It is equally important to avoid terrible arguments or expressions of outrage. You should steer clear of emotionally damaging behavior. People forgive, but it is best not to stir things up to the point at which forgiveness is required. When you are depressed, you need the love of other people, and yet depression fosters actions that destroy that love. Depressed people often stick pins into their own life rafts. The conscious mind can intervene. One is not helpless.

Exercise because it's good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds.

The more gay people can tell our stories, the more other people will accept gay people.

Science still won't explain the mysterious nature of love and despair.