Rufus Wainwright Quotes

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

Ultimately, love conquers all, and gay or straight, don't we all want to believe that? I would that if this was to happen to me, and one of my kids had come and told me he or she was gay, I would say: If that's the only way you can live, then I love you.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

I luckily had a very charming, lovable mom who I think everybody could see bits and pieces of their mom in.

It makes no difference to my family where one comes from as long as we make each other happy. They are pretty cool like that.

I always tell the parents, 'You don't have to approve of your children; you just have to accept them for who they are.'

If you have the capacity to love, you have the capacity to love anyone.

We can continue to learn generation after generation and now is time to begin to learn how to love in a non-discriminatory way because we are intelligent enough, but we are not loving enough as a species.

I used to love people for what they could be. I thought love was how hard you tried and how much you sacrificed and suffered. That is not love. Acceptance is.

My mother taught me how to love. My mom is the most loving person I know.

I do what I believe the Lord did, and that is walk in love with all mankind, which I don't see a lot of Christians doing. Christians can be so judgmental that it can turn off people who are considering converting. It makes me a little embarrassed, to tell you the truth, when I hear Christians criticizing others.

Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

Friends accept you the way you are.

Deep down, my mom had long suspected I was gay... Much of her anger and hurt came from her sense of betrayal that she was the last to be told.

We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.

My mother is a ball of fire in the world, and I love that about her. But what I have learned from my stepdad is something as important, which is patience and compassion. Because when you are living with someone else, those two qualities go a long way.

My father wasn't really involved and my mom is the light in my life.

Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human.

When we're looking for compassion, we need someone who is deeply rooted, is able to bend and, most of all, embraces us for our strengths and struggles.

The person who has inspired me my whole life is my Mom, because she taught me commitment. She sacrificed.

My mom knew early on that I was gay, and she knew that I had to get out of the ghetto.

I love round people, I love skinny people. I love people in general; we've got to get past labels and stop being so critical about everything.

We do not judge the people we love.

I'm just really supportive of everyone - even though I believe that things should be equal, people have different circumstances in their life that have taught them to be who they are. Even if I don't agree with them, I don't judge them. I'm a really non-judgmental person.