The weakness of a soul is proportionate to the number of truths that must be kept from it.

Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners.

It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.

When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.

A man by himself is in bad company.

It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.

We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.

Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.

Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do.

Facts are counterrevolutionary.

Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat.

It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate.

Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.

To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question.

Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident.

We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.

We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.

We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams.

It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.

The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves.

Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.

There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.

The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.

There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his.

To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.

To the old, the new is usually bad news.

Each one of us fulfills a piece of a larger puzzle.

Most people, if you live in a big city, you see some form of schizophrenia every day, and it's always in the form of someone homeless. 'Look at that guy - he's crazy. He looks dangerous.' Well, he's on the streets because of mental illness. He probably had a job and a home.

The Trevor Project provides crisis-intervention and suicide-prevention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning teens and young adults. It's truly a lifeline to so many young people who just need someone to listen to them.

You can write your own history.

Unfortunately, with men's health, we don't talk about it enough, and prostate cancer gets lost in the conversation.

The States doesn't think much about Canada, but we're attached. We're like Siamese twins. We can't do things - you can't roll over in the American bed without waking up the Canadians. It matters.

I hope that dog lovers around the world will support the Cruelty Free International global campaign to end the use of dogs in outdated and cruel experiments.

At home in L.A., Sunday is lazy. It's the wife and me lying in bed with coffee, watching 'The Soup' or something funny on TiVo. The kid will occasionally join us. Eventually, breakfast is at a place down the street called Paty's. And we always have some kind of great dinner - my wife makes a great roast beef.

I'm still a kid. I stretched it out.

I did my first musical in 4th grade as Huck Finn. By 11th grade, I was starring in 'Godspell' and 'Pippin' and pretending to be Che in 'Evita' in my bedroom. Singing has always been a huge part of me.

I'm torn about late parenting. I believe people should spend their twenties living and having fun and not having any regrets later. I also think people in their thirties generally make better parents but so many of my friends are having trouble - myself included - as fathers get older.

We want all LGBTQ kids to grow up in a world where they feel safe and equal to their straight peers.

As I got older, I realized that my life experience, what I really had, was always going to be more valuable than what I pretended to have.

Mental illness is the last frontier. The gay thing is part of everyday life now on a show like 'Modern Family,' but mental illness is still full of stigma. Maybe it is time for that to change.

Will Truman will be on my epitaph, but as an actor, I have to challenge myself.

I'm doing a very funny show in which we talk about issues. I speak at Aids charities and things. It's great to do something fun with our days and yet we're told we're doing something important.

In the future, things will truncate! No, in the age of Twitter, we can't be upset when words become shorter.

I think we all realize that anyone can - and has - gotten AIDS. So there's obviously still a lot to be done.

I think I was very lucky that I didn't get well-known until my early thirties. If it had happened when I was younger, you might have seen me falling out of nightclubs. I think I conducted myself as a much better human being because I was already married when all that came along (I got married five months after I got the role as Will).

I'm not sure sometimes if it was because Will was gay or it was a sitcom. But that combination does make it hard to become the new lead on the 'Sopranos.'

I never felt cool growing up. I was a bit of an outsider, but I discovered theatre very early on, which got me through.

There was a time when history was written by a few people, the winners. Now, history is written by all of us all the time... That's the thing we keep telling our 14-year-olds, you know: anything you do right now, it's not going anywhere.

I started to realise that it wasn't for me. Perhaps I didn't have to give my Hamlet before I died, that the world might be an OK place without my Hamlet, in fact.

Will isn't a screaming queen - that's Jack's part. They needed someone to play the part for America. It's just not the same as Britain. To have a gay character as a lead is risky.