The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

It is your life and it is worth risking everything to make it yours.

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."

I try to live in the moment and let that moment carry me to the next great place.

Alone time is when I distance myself from the voices of the world so I can hear my own.

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

If you feel incomplete, you alone must fill yourself with love in all your empty shattered spaces