Even if I didn't have the support that I have, I would still be fighting the same fights, and I would still be the same person that I am today.

I want people to see the truth... regardless of who they are... because without information, you cannot make informed decisions as a public.

I prefer a painful truth over any blissful fantasy.

I am Chelsea Manning. I am a female. Given the way that I feel, and have felt since childhood, I want to begin hormone therapy as soon as possible.

Sometimes You Have to Pay a Heavy Price to Live in a Free Society

I think we can achieve meaningful change, but only if we demand that the institutions themselves change their behavior.

There is far more to transitioning in the public eye than money, public relations, and logistics.

I want people to see the truth.

Anxiety, depression, and suicide don't discriminate based on how much money you have - though it might make it easier for you to get help.

I don't think that I'm embracing any kind of leadership for transparency or trans advocacy.

It can be so difficult to get people to think about systemic institutional problems. It is easier just to see the actions of one or two people and say, "That's wrong!"

Beautify your breath – beautify your life.

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

My working and personal relationship with President Obama is marked by growing trust. I appreciate this.

Live your life, listen to your music way to loud, be crazy and as different as you want to be and always remember your not alone

Some say I was disappointed when President Obama won, and that is absolute nonsense.

The path of repentance, though hard at times, lifts one ever upward and leads to a perfect forgiveness.

Temperament is fixed, set. The skull, followed by the temperament: the two hardest parts of the body. Follow your temperament. It is not a philosophy, It is a rule, like the Rule of St Benedict.

I stood among them, but not of them: in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.

To me, I think the core values that will help create the world that we're striving to live in are constant.

Happiness is something you get from yourself. If you're completely satisfied with yourself, nobody can take it away from you.