“The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.”

“Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age.Nothing does --- except wrinkles.It's true,some wines improves with age.But only if the grapes were good in the first place”

“If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.”

“The church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.”

“If you want a place in the sun you've got to put up with a few blisters.”

“It is almost impossible to throw dirt on someone without getting a little on yourself.”

“The only queer people are those who don't love anybody.”

“Yeah, the whole family knows. It's no big deal. One night at dinner I said, 'Mom, you know the forbidden love that Spock has for Kirk? Well, me too.' It was easier for her to understand that way.”

“I love you. The words reverberated between them, sinking into their skin, scored onto their hearts as they staked their claims to each others bodies, surrendering themselves and possessing each oth...”

“Social conservatives seem to see a bigger threat to marriage from committed gay couples who want in on it than from straight ones who opt out of it.”

“the church should just stay out of people's pants.”

“If our relationships are not all about sex, then we must not make homosexuality a matter of concern.”