I had seen a lot of bullying on social media. If this is happening to me, who only a few people are paying attention to, what happens to somebody who is on a bigger scale?
It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
It's important for Asian American kids to see themselves in stories and to feel seen. They need to know that their stories are universal, too, that they, too, can fall in love in a teen movie. They don't have to be the sidekick; they can be the hero.
if something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That's why imaginary things are often easier to see than real ones.
By the mid-noughties, I found that I was no longer the only openly gay person in every setting. At one point, a couple of Moscow magazine publishers even got the idea that they should actively headhunt gay and lesbian staff.
That's the great thing about social media: you can make one move, and everybody knows about it, and I kind of like that.
Sometimes what you want is right in front of you. All you have to do is open your eyes and see it.
Never take an elevator in city hall.
We're invisible. I've never been here with someone else. It's different being invisible with someone.
Beauty is an internal light, a spiritual radiance that all women have, but most women hide - unconsciously denying its existence. What we do not claim, remains invisible.
To be a leader, you have to travel through the entire length and breadth of the country.
The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.
A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?
In social media, people cannot build big followings organically unless what they are putting out to the world has value.
I can't pull back. I'm 6 foot 3, I'm tall, and I'm gay. I light up the room.
If your only intent is to be seen, you'll never be seen. If your intent is to be happy, comfortable, genuine, and true in craft, you're destined to be noticed.
The truth is, I suppose I am now public property; and a public inn is the place where people can have access to me.
When I was Under-Secretary, I never got quoted at all. Now everything I say gets noted and printed.
I was walking around legally blind. Now I have 20-20 vision. I can't believe I spent so many years blurry, but I think that coincides with how I was feeling. Now I notice if people are watching me, but I also smile right back if someone waves, which helps.
You can change the world, but if no one's listening, it doesn't matter.
It is in the darkest skies that stars are best seen.
The crowd will follow a leader who marches twenty paces ahead of them, but if he is a thousand paces ahead of them, they will neither see nor follow him.
I don't get recognised that much yet in London, but when I do I get a real sense of achievement.
Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
There's no hiding place for someone of my size.
