Human ordeals thrive on ignorance. To understand a problem with clarity is already half way towards solving it.
O, say does that star-spangled flag of pride yet wave? O'er the land of the free, and the home for the gay!
Fight and push harder for what you believe in, you'd be surprised, you are much stronger than you think.
If anyone tells you that you can't achieve your dreams, or puts you down, make your hand into a claw and tell them you're a little monster and you can do whatever the f*** you want.
I adored Freddie Mercury and Queen had a hit called Radio Gaga. That's why I love the name. Freddie was unique - one of the biggest personalities in the whole of pop music. He was not only a singer but also a fantastic performer, a man of the theatre and someone who constantly transformed himself. In short: a genius.
Ignore all hatred and criticism. Live for what you create, and die protecting it.
Don't you ever let a soul in the world tell you that you can't be exactly who you are.
Being on tour sends me crazy, I drink too much and out comes the John Mcenroe in me.
Know about the appeals process, especially in the case of the most serious crimes.
And in me too the wave rises. It swells; it arches its back. I am aware once more of a new desire, something rising beneath me like the proud horse whose rider first spurs and then pulls him back. What enemy do we now perceive advancing against us, you whom I ride now, as we stand pawing this stretch of pavement? It is death. Death is the enemy. It is death against whom I ride with my spear couched and my hair flying back like a young man's, like Percival's, when he galloped in India. I strike spurs into my horse. Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!
We no longer believe, as we did 250 years ago, that the mentally ill are animals, but we are not yet ready to grant that they are fully human either.