"What I know for sure is that you feel real joy in direct proportion to how connected you are to living your truth."

“More harm is done by fools through foolishness than is done by evil-doers through wickedness.”

“If Britney Spears can party it up in Vegas with one of her boys and go get married on a whim and annul her marriage the next day, why can't a loving same sex couple tie the knot?”

Source : "Same Sex Marriages: What’s the Big Deal?". www.huffingtonpost.com. May 24, 2009.

“If you’re a long-time Thor fan you know there’s kind of a tradition from time to time of somebody else picking up that hammer. Beta Ray Bill was a horse-faced alien guy who picked up the hammer. At one point Thor was a frog. So I think if we can accept Thor as a frog and a horse-faced alien, we should be able to accept a woman being able to pick up that hammer and wield it for a while, which surprisingly we’ve never really seen before.”

Source : "Marvel Comics Writers Explain Why They're Making Thor a Woman". Interview with Eliana Dockterman, time.com. July 15, 2014.

“God sends you into a situation not so that He can show He is God; but rather for you to show who you are!”

“Be kindly and just in your dealings with your men. Never play favorites. Make them feel that justice tempered with mercy may always be counted on. This does not mean a slackening of discipline. Obedience to orders and regulations must always be insisted upon, and good conduct on the part of the men exacted. Especially should this be done with reference to civilian inhabitants of foreign countries in which Marines are serving.”

“They say that I have no hits and that I'm difficult to work with. And they say that like it's a bad thing.”

Source : "Watch Tom Waits' Speech and Performance at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony" by Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. March 25, 2011.

“Olympics are probably the most important thing for Russians than any other athletes in the whole world. Since I was a little kid and since everybody was a little kid, their dream was playing in Olympic Games, especially if we have a chance to represent our country in Sochi, it's unbelievable and it's going to be a great thing.”

“Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it. And the only possible way to accomplish this great change is to accord to women equal power in the making, shaping and controlling of the circumstances of life.”