To me, celebrity doesn't mean a whole lot unless you're willing to use it. So I wanted to use it in a different way, with my AIDS work, the human rights stuff for the gay and lesbian community and the speaking I do.
My work generally tends to be an all-out, 360-degree subversive take on everything, most of all my own notion of myself as a son, father, husband, human being and male in this culture.
Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.
My interest is not data, it's the world. And part of world development you can see in numbers. Others, like human rights, empowerment of women, it's very difficult to measure in numbers.
I like to think I'm a role model for women. But I also don't like to just limit it to women. I like to think I'm a role model for human beings in general.
Since January 2002, when the United States began detaining at Guantanamo Bay enemy combatants captured in Afghanistan, Iraq, and other fronts in the war on terror, critics have complained of human rights abuses.
The disagreeable reality for those who believe in human rights is that there are some occasions - and Iraq may be one of them - when war is the only real remedy for regimes that live by terror.
An ugly smile. An ugly soul.
A man without a footprint has no soul.
We are all souls walking on the earth.
Music is makes the soul happy.
A happy soul in a happy body.
A thankful heart, a grateful soul.
Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.
The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.
What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.
These are the times that try men's souls.
Carry on an undefiled undertaking.
It ain't over 'til it's over. -Yogi Berra
Crying relieves pressure on soul.
