I always wanted to shave. It is a very natural process. For my birthday I got a lot of shaving stuff.

Gender is between your ears and not between your legs.

When I realised I was transgender I was so afraid of what my transition would do to everyone else in my life and how they would react to it and would I be rejected?

I thought, transgender people are much worse off than I am. That's why they're willing to risk everything to be who they are. But the older I got, the harder it got to stay in my body.

Parents have to understand: if your kid isn't you, don't blame the kid.

I don't have the luxury of doing things privately.

I came out around 25 publicly.

I had felt uncomfortable as a woman my whole life.

I felt like one of the boys. My friends were boys. In school I related to boys.

A lot of parents never speak to their transgender kids again that's not the case in my family.

People who don't have gender dysphoria aren't going to catch it by watching me dance on television.

Poetry is the truth dressed up with perceptions, emotions, and anxieties of expression.

The light overcome the darkness.

I would disapprove of another hospitable man who was excessive in friendship, as of one excessive in hate. In all things balance is better.

Now I’msober and Irealize, Ididn’t drink toescape the world, I drank to escapemyself

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.

Peace comes when there is no cloud between us and God. Peace is the consequence of forgiveness, God's removal of that which obscures His face and so breaks union with Him.

There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.

Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets;Jonson was theVirgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare.

I see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have never met a steadily logical person.

Beneath every excuse lies a fear. Practice being fearless.