All parents should be aware that when they mock or curse gay people, they may be mocking or cursing their own child.

At the same time that you've got to open yourself up to the fact that experience is going to teach you year after year, decade after decade. I remember I very badly wanted to write a newspaper column when I was only 21 years old, and I went to my editor and told him that, and he said, "You're a really good writer, but you haven't lived long enough to be qualified to live out loud."

Look back, to slavery, to suffrage, to integration and one thing is clear. Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts.

A man who builds his own pedestal had better use strong cement.

Some of the most important lessons I've learned have been from stumbling, and I am deeply grateful that my parents allowed me to fight my own battles.

Don't ever forget the words on a postcard that my father sent me last year: "If you win the rat race, you're still a rat.

Testosterone does not have to be toxic.