"A fooles bolt is soone shot."

-- John Heywood

“I am gay on the outside, especially among my own folk (I count Poles my own); but inside something gnaws at me; some presentiment, anxiety, dreams - or sleeplessness - melancholy, indifference - desire for life, and the next instant, desire for death; some kind of sweet peace, some kind of numbness, absent-mindedness...”

Source : Frederic Chopin (2013). “Chopin's Letters”, p.166, Courier Corporation
“What's normal to you is normal to you.”

Source : Source: www.slate.com
“Most people don't know that I am an accomplished dramatic actor... But I've performed in several Shakespeare productions including Hamlet, except in this version, Hamlet lives in an apartment with two women, and has to pretend he's gay so that the landlord won't evict him.”
“If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it.”
“Today I will simply accept. I will relinquish the need to be in resistance to myself and my environment in any way. I will move forward in joy by accepting where I am right now.”
“We modern Christians are long on talk and short on conduct.”
“Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child”
“By religion, then, I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life.”

Source : "The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion". Book by James G. Frazer, 1890.

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