You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don't live the only life you have, you won't live some other life, you won't live any life at all.

History is not a procession of illustrious people. It's about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.

The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.

I think white gay people feel cheated because they were born, in principle, in a society in which they were supposed to be safe. The anomaly of their sexuality puts them in danger, unexpectedly.

The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.

It demands great spiritual resilience not to hate the hater whose foot is on your neck, and an even greater miracle of perception and charity not to teach your child to hate.

We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them -- to try to understand what you have done, why you have done it. That way, you can begin to forgive yourself. That's very important. If you don't forgive yourself you'll never be able to forgive anybody else and you'll go on committing the same crimes forever.