I found it very comforting to see that there is no such thing as a completely normal family. People find their way through whatever the differences may be.

I do think that if the Church can see its way to greater tolerance, Church members will have greater exposure to gay people, and the lives of those gay people will be better.

I did grow up in a household in which I felt that to be myself was to damage the people I loved.

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.

I'm not studying everything that can go wrong. What I'm studying is how much love there can be, even when everything appears to be going wrong.

We don't seek the painful experiences that hew our identities, but we seek our identities in the wake of painful experiences.

I love to communicate, and I love music. That's why I always thought not being able to hear would be a tragedy.