"Is it easier for you to have straight friends, Larry [Kramer], since you seem so often disappointed in your gay friends who can't live up to what you expect of them as gay people?"

“Egotism is such a terrible disease, he dies, to be reincarnated he continues coming and going.”

“By taking a business-like approach, the student-athletes and their parents will be in control of the outcome and that's how it should be.”

“David held up his hands. "Hold it. This is going nowhere. You two are both afraid, and being afraid makes you angry, and being angry makes you lash out." "Thank you, Dr. Laura," I said snippily. "I'm not afraid of her," Hunter said, like a six-year-old, and I wanted to kick him under the table. Now that I knew he was actually alive, I remembered just how unpleasant he was.”

“The happiest people are focused on living their own life (not someone else's) as well as possible.”

Source : FaceBook post by Harriet Lerner from Jan 04, 2015

“Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living.”

“Even with all the negativeness of the whole social media thing, I still think it's leaps and bounds more positive.”

“If you look at the Bernie Sanders of today and you look at the Bernie Sanders of a year ago [2015], when this started, he`s come a long way in terms of.This was a guy at the start of the campaign who had contempt for any personal questions.”

“Looking back on my whole experience, the biggest takeaway was just being proud of what you do, and knowing that it's okay to do your best even if it's not the best. That's sort of the theme. I mean, obviously I'm not the best singer, obviously I'm not the best piano player or the best songwriter, but I'm doing my best on all of 'em. Once you have all those things in place, then I think everything falls the way it should.”