The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.

You only have to believe that you can succeed, that you can be whatever your heart desires, be willing to work for it, and you can have it.

I was in a conversation and someone said: "You know, we were talking about the whole issue of transgender and how it has become so accepted now, and somebody said, 'You know the Oprah show, I think has had a big impact.'" I said, I don't think so. We did several transgender [shows], but we didn't do as much for transgender as I did for, say, abused kids or battered women. And they said, "But no, you started the conversation. You started the conversation and the conversation has led us to here."

My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.

Well, I am a Christian who believes that there are certainly many more paths to God other than Christianity.

My first deepening of spirituality came when I was 6, when I was moved from my grandmother and sent to live with my mother - whom I really did not know - who had moved to Milwaukee. Something inside myself knew that I was never going to see my grandmother again - I would be wasting my time to live in that space of wanting that.

With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.