"If there's a heaven, it's a cold place. A dark place. A lonely place."

“The important thing is not what we look like, but the role we play in our best friend’s life. Friends choose certain friends because that’s the kind of company they are looking for at that specific time, not because they’re the correct height, age, or have the right hair color”

“There was a lot really awful about that time [in fifties] if you were gay.”

Source : Source: fourtwonine.com

“Plutarch says very finely that a man should not allow himself to hate even his enemies.”

“Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.”

“Deutsche Telekom was a brand that people still loved, the nerds loved it, and it was still there, it was still visible. The advertiser was OK. But it was a mess. It was in my mind, though, intuitively obvious what to do. I had some advisers and friends, and we looked at it and said all you have to do is get the iPhone, buy some spectrum, consolidate the industry, reinvigorate the brand, and take this company public.”

Source : Source: www.businessinsider.com

“Intelligent people know they are intelligent. They also know that one person cannot know all, hence a person is not stupid simply because he is ignorant of one thing or another. They know that, to another intelligent person, they will not appear stupid in asking for an explanation of what they do not know, and so their ignorance on any particular issue does not become an embarrassment.”

“Indeed, man only exists insofar as he expresses himself. Music does it in musical ideas.”

Source : Anton Webern (1975). “The path to the new music”, European Amer Music Dist Corp

“Victory [over homophobia] may require five or maybe 20 years. Yet I have no doubt that "don't ask, don't tell" and same-sex adoption bans will be as unspeakable and inexplicable to my grandchildren as counting a slave as three-fifths of a human being.”

Source : "Reparations for Gay Americans". The Detroit Free Press, April 07, 2009.