“Although my mom and I had often disagreed politically and personally, ...” — Dustin Lance Black Quote

“Although my mom and I had often disagreed politically and personally, she'd led our family by example, instilling in us a can-do attitude that often defied reason - an optimism many would call foolish, ignorant, and naive, but an optimism that occasionally shocked our neighbors and our world with its brazen veracity.”

“If you do something with acceptance and kindness, you can create a true friendship.”

“People are always going to disagree politically, because we all come at the law from a different perspective with different needs.”

“If a person can be said to have the wrong attitude, there is no need to pay attention to his arguments.”

“A society is defined as much by how it comes to terms with its past as by its attitude toward the future: its memories are no less revealing than its aims.”

“When I first left university, I thought about going into the private sector. But I discovered when I went to interview that I could only have a career in the back office, or doing HR. The attitude was, 'My dear lady, you cannot possibly think about going on the board.'”